When looking at the list of reasons "why do you go to work", it's nice to see such a big list, of possible ways of explaining it.
Makes a change from the usual "keep the wolf from the door", "keep me off the streets", and the "pay the mortage" ones.
Just looking at your cell vs atom description of an apple, yes both are true, but when we talk about why someone goes to work my own mind cannot compute why or how that can be described in an electrical way. If it was how do the charges and chemical states interplay and exist during the decision making process of going to work, then I undestand that way.
It's just that when you ask why you go to work I feel it cannot be explained electro-chemically, let alone exclusively electro-chemically.
Unlike the exlusively atom vs. cells description of an apple, both can stand on their own as valid descriptions not needing the other to hold water, as it were, whereas the why of going to work, is dependent on many factors that interplay, and none of which that really stand alone as the sole reason.
So for me it is description of something like an apple which can be done on one level, culturally, physically, chemically, etc,
But as soon as you ask whyabout a particular action you take - like going to work, then the answer I feel always spans a multitude of different disiplines that all interplay, and that none of which can exclusively stand alone as the only factor becuase of the meshing of many different domains that psychology has to take into account of.
I hope this makes some sense.
Perhaps I am missing a vital link, or my brain is just not big enough to grasp your meaning.