It’s also useful in addressing the most basic human questions, including: What, to me, would be a life well lived?
Anybody’s life is comprised of discrete objects, hierarchically arranged.
For example, an object could be: how well we manage metabolic health — balancing what we eat, when we eat, and how we burn energy.
There are potentially infinitely more objects in the assembly space — so then it becomes a prioritization problem.
The assembly contingent is something like understanding the causal chain of events between the present and some imagined, better, future.
After all, life seems to be a soup of emergent factors where we have a sliver of influence (on what’s most local and immediate).