Talk of tool-being expresses an intimation of being as purposefulness, which is also a way of introducing vectoriality without intentionality, or without any anthropomorphic reference to consciousness. Rather there is a reference to consciousness, or to something upstream of consciousness as we recognise it, but is kept implicit. Purposefulness is both diachronic (again upstream of 'time') and a form of universal relatedness. An item, or idem, cannot be purposeful without reference to an other, an alter, and since this alter is also purposeful, and relation is transitive, the web of connection extends without bounds. Every item thus reaches towards the whole and its purposefulness is merely the expression on your scale of its embeddedness in the whole. You could also express the same insight by saying that every item, or idem, or instance, is a striving towards identity, which is the full realisation of thatness. Or you could say that whatness is the striving towards thatness. But thatness belongs to synchrony, it is the perfect presence of this instance, now, its perfect blessedness, its ever original createdness, its individuality as willed by the all. It is something like the equivalence of zero and infinity: to see infinity in a grain of sand is both to appreciate its perfect fulfilled identity or thatness and its perfect definability as itself within the all. The conscious self is something that doesn't exist but ought to exist, or its existence is its ought-to-exist. It is at neither end of the polarity between idem and identity, hence this odd striving towards identity or individuation, which seems to encompass nine-tenths of psychology. The other tenth being the consequences of the realisation of universal relatedness.