Saying that something is true/useful/specific/good/interesting/hedonic is not very specific, there are particular senses of these qualifiers relevant in different contexts, inducing normativity in their own way. Why is a particular sense of a particular qualifier relevant in a particular context? That is often unclear, you felt it appropriate to pursue with your human mind, perhaps incorrectly.
Clear explanations are an unusual thing, they are not at all always available. There’s the physical explanation, things happen because laws of physics, that’s occasionally relevant. For events that have to do with cognition, such as beliefs and hypotheses and ideas, the more interesting explanations are object level (succeeding in reaching for a particular thing in the world, or for a particular abstract construction), or else general principles for maintaining performance or improving design of a mind in some way.
For things that are not instrumentally convergent, and don’t chase a clearly formulated objective, relevant considerations are a matter of preference, and the only explanation is some handwaving about how they should channel preference (even though that can’t be carried out in greater generality on human level), which can’t be unpacked in a form that’s not irreducibly messy.
Saying that something is true/useful/specific/good/interesting/hedonic is not very specific, there are particular senses of these qualifiers relevant in different contexts, inducing normativity in their own way. Why is a particular sense of a particular qualifier relevant in a particular context? That is often unclear, you felt it appropriate to pursue with your human mind, perhaps incorrectly.
Clear explanations are an unusual thing, they are not at all always available. There’s the physical explanation, things happen because laws of physics, that’s occasionally relevant. For events that have to do with cognition, such as beliefs and hypotheses and ideas, the more interesting explanations are object level (succeeding in reaching for a particular thing in the world, or for a particular abstract construction), or else general principles for maintaining performance or improving design of a mind in some way.
For things that are not instrumentally convergent, and don’t chase a clearly formulated objective, relevant considerations are a matter of preference, and the only explanation is some handwaving about how they should channel preference (even though that can’t be carried out in greater generality on human level), which can’t be unpacked in a form that’s not irreducibly messy.