Objectively, no, as it is an imprecise question. Want is subjective, mercurial and potentially infinite, and the precision level has not been specified. As an

Objectively, no, as it is an imprecise question. Want is subjective, mercurial and potentially infinite, and the precision level has not been specified. As an engineer, I'd say sometimes they do. Depends on the person. It should be well known to people here that you need to sit down and interview clients to understand what they do and then see what they really want when building software and collecting requirements. I think it really depends on how deeply the person has thought about the need. Do they understand the problem domain? How far from the problem are they? Abstract understandings of want (e.g. "I want to be happy") are far less useful than more specific ones (e.g. "I want to make $30/hr to cover my living expenses comfortably"). Do you know what you want? I suppose, in abstract, people want an infinite amount of novel pleasure, doled out over eternity, tempered by an infinite amount of comparable but possibly also novel discomfort and waiting to provide context for said pleasure, eased by a condition where they forget their past experiences so that they may enjoy things they liked again as if it were the first time?