The Value of Value (or "cogito ergo efficio")

Why am I looking for value? I am looking for it, after all. It may be a modified concept of "value," but it seems that I must value something! So why do I value value?

"I think not!"

The simple answer is that I am fighting off Schrödinger's zombie. I have agency for some reason that is beyond me, but I do not have the tools with which to use it. For some reason I have arrived where I am now, able to think and be self aware. I am not only able to make decisions, but I must make decisions and that requires evaluating all sorts of things. From the point at which I now sit, I have a certain lifeless, momentum of being existentially undead.

Without a foundation for value, my options are all as trivial as to turn right or turn left along an unending series of forks in the road, past unmarked signs leading to something (or nothing). This is the Void.

To be without value is to be robbed of agency. It is not possible to voluntarily do this, as that would require choice, and thus agency, and thus value. It seems that value is an imperative for anything that is self aware. As soon as cogito ergo sum, then cogito ergo efficio.