Fuzzbutt

I don't think the blood is intelligent enough to realize that "escape from hot ouch" will result in the death of the greater macroorganism, and in fact it probably isn't aware of that greater whole at all, having been disconnected from it. not having enough biomass to grow eyes to see it with, the thing's blood would have to at least need a flesh tendril connecting to the greater whole, to remain in communication.doesn't mean your idea is not true. the movie was so wrapped up in the horror, it didn't much get into the behavior of the monster. the thing never got separated into pieces large enough to be intelligent enough to decide to act against each other's interests. it'd be interesting if the movie did that though. like they split the thing in half, and the two things started fighting with each other, giving the humans enough time to go fetch the flame thrower.