I don’t share the intuition that our utility function “seems to consist of real numbers”. It seems to consist of ordinal numbers, at best: this is better than that, which is better than the other. “At best” because it’s not even clear that, for two outcomes neither of which I have ranked higher than the other, I’m generally able to say that I’m indifferent between them. Ambivalence is not necessarily indifference.
I don’t share the intuition that our utility function “seems to consist of real numbers”. It seems to consist of ordinal numbers, at best: this is better than that, which is better than the other. “At best” because it’s not even clear that, for two outcomes neither of which I have ranked higher than the other, I’m generally able to say that I’m indifferent between them. Ambivalence is not necessarily indifference.