There are no monotone "values" in biology.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.