To be brief, I think the Existential Angst Factory comes from a basic malfunction only possible in a conceptual being—believing that truth precedes value, and so engaging in a futile tail biting exercise that cannot succeed, while your value detection circuits continue to register the lack of value produced from the exercise.
There’s something worse than asking the wrong question—asking a question that is not even wrong.
How I would phrase it is, value precedes justification, they can be influenced by it but without some set of starting preferences to value justification in first place you cannot begin.
To be brief, I think the Existential Angst Factory comes from a basic malfunction only possible in a conceptual being—believing that truth precedes value, and so engaging in a futile tail biting exercise that cannot succeed, while your value detection circuits continue to register the lack of value produced from the exercise.
There’s something worse than asking the wrong question—asking a question that is not even wrong.
How I would phrase it is, value precedes justification, they can be influenced by it but without some set of starting preferences to value justification in first place you cannot begin.