You might conclude that what the hunter-gatherer really wants is to solve abstract mathematical problems, he just doesn’t know it. But there is no set of values that a person “really” wants. Humans are largely defined by the circumstances they reside in.

At which point, you should ask, what general principles do (should) they want to use in order to decide what to do depending on the circumstances. Dependence on a lot of parameters is not chaos, not absence of a fact, it's merely a more difficult problem where all the different cases should be addressed, rather than just a single configuration, a blind answer that doesn't distinguish.