Hm. What if we said that "these preferences exist and theoretically could be mapped to a vector", but also acknowledge that we're impulsive and won't ever actua

Hm. What if we said that "these preferences exist and theoretically could be mapped to a vector", but also acknowledge that we're impulsive and won't ever actually be able to rigidly identify our own? "Preferences" here might be more accurately stated as tendencies with some motive.