for instance , it would be a particularly wasteful endeavor if , for the sake of exhausting every last option available , he were even to go so far as resorting to invasive ontological neurospelunkery , for this unorthodox process would only prove to be the cerebral equivalent of tracking a creature one was not even sure existed : surely one could happen upon some new species deep in the caverns somewhere and assume it to be the goal of ones trek , but then there was a certain idiocy to this notion , as one would never be sure this newfound entity should prove to be what one wished it to be ; taken further , this very need to find something , to begin with , would only lead one to clamber more deeply inward along rigorous paths and over unsteady terrain , the entirety of which could only be traversed with the arrogant resolve of someone who has already determined , with a misplaced sense of pride in his own assumptions , that he was undoubtedly making headway in a direction worthwhile .