But you can still keep asking the “why” question and go back dozens of layers, usually suffering combinatorial explosion of causes, and even recursion in some cases. Only very, very rarely have I ever encountered a terminal, genesis cause for which there isn’t a “why”—the will to live is honestly the only one occurring to me right now. Everything else has causes upon causes as far as I’d care to look...
But you can still keep asking the “why” question and go back dozens of layers, usually suffering combinatorial explosion of causes, and even recursion in some cases. Only very, very rarely have I ever encountered a terminal, genesis cause for which there isn’t a “why”—the will to live is honestly the only one occurring to me right now. Everything else has causes upon causes as far as I’d care to look...
Oh, in that sense, yeah. I meant as in having articulated meta-preferences that explain lower level preferences.