The Root Motivation

By the Root Motivation, I mean the fundamental argument by which I justify the utility and desirability of accumulating information as the highest goal. It does, of course, require the acceptance of subjective criteria, all of which I find reasonable. It goes as follows:

Observation 1: Species can only survive indefinitely by adapting to their environment in some sustainable fashion.

Observation 2: A species can manipulate its environment if it has some useful knowledge about its workings.

Observation 3: The more useful knowledge that a species accumulates, the greater its ability to manipulate its environment will be.

Observation 4: A species with all useful knowledge about its environment knows how to control it completely, if it can be controlled.

Observation 5: If a species can control its environment completely, then it has adapted to its environment in a sustainable fashion, and can survive indefinitely.

From these observations, it seems evident to me that acquiring useful knowledge about one's environment is a valid solution to the problem of perpetuating a species. From here, I need an assumption:

Assume: The highest goal of a species is to perpetuate its own existence.

Conclusion:

If the acquisition of useful knowledge is a valid solution to the problem of perpetuating a species, and perpetuating the species is the highest goal of a species, then the acquisition of useful knowledge is the highest goal of the species. This is the Root Motivation.

Discussion:

What I'm trying to justify here, more or less, is that the perspective which individuals and society should take concerning all relevant decisions concerning general welfare should be one of maximizing the amount of useful information acquired about their environment. To not do so would be placing the continuity of the species at a lower level of priority.
To be clear, this does not mean that this perspective, which I call Informationalism, is the only perspective. I am only asserting that, if you agree that survival of a species should be its highest goal, and agree with these observations, that it is a valid perspective.