As a side-note to many things, including discussions on other threads, I would add that if I were writing this one today, I might add that many things about the Eldraeic mindset would be clearer if you looked at Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for humans, and considered that for eldrae, self-actualization is the big chonky one at the bottom of the pyramid. Not physiological needs.
(One might also add that a key in understanding how their self-actualization and esteem layers fit together might be finding the inability to tell the difference.)
This is, of course, imperfect as it’s applying a human model to creatures who aren’t, but it may help finding places to grasp the questions.