A philosophy of life based on its facts feels incomplete. Its notion of cause upon cause is either infinitely regressive or comes back to the uncaused cause (God or the ‘big bang’ dependent on your persuasion).

The factual interpretation can’t explain the philosophical problem of origins. Perhaps neither can an ontology of value but value doesn’t have to. With value there are no origins necessarily.

Value itself is dependent on sentience. The source of sentience is unknowable but doesn’t need to be known. The important thing to know is that from a values-based existence change can be effected in accordance with that value. The scheme of that change is dictated by sheer psychic force. Better and more coherent this than the brutality of an unyielding, purely physical universe.

The essence of a reality based on values is spiritual rather than empirical.