Ah. I see. But no, I mean it only as generalizing the first principle such that

Ah. I see. But no, I mean it only as generalizing the first principle such that it is consistent at all scales from the subatomic world to the most complex of human coordination and conceptualization.

That joy is a gain (the experience of the presence of resources and the absence of social pressure and the absence of risk) that we sought to acquire for some reason or other, as a form of rest, or more likely, relaxation, comfort, or joy.

Anything we act to pursue can be expressed as the pursuit of something – all action and some inaction is all pursuit or it would not exist.

We are part of the physical universe. We work by it’s same rules. We just have memory and the capacity for prediction from it, and choice among those predictions. As such we seek like the rest of the world to acquire what satisfies us.

This allows us to express all of existence using the same frame of reference. It’s not a value judgement. It’s a system of commensurable description and measurement. 😉

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