You need something to work for, a goal. Only a "closed system of beliefs" can define something as right and wrong, good and bad. The man-invented concept of math can define something as right or wrong, similarly can humanity define things as right and wrong, good or bad. It depends what system is in command.If there was a, mathematical based, theory to make decisions in real world, and if we would understand it, then we would always make the right decision.
Our goal is to convert more and more dead matter in the universe to something living.