How odd would everything seem if we weren’t conditioned for survival. Everything would just be, without all the human-centric judgments that we assign. A plant is green because that’s the way human eyes take in that light on the frequency spectrum. A plant is food because we humans need to eat. A plant, the very word “plant,” is what we decided to call it. But is a plant any of this objectively and apart from us? The world is as we define it; we define it because we need to; we need because we must survive. But what if we didn’t need to survive, then everything would just be. Presumably the world would still be dynamic, but without one change better than any other. And then I think the prime value would be curiosity.