The particular problem I have with your take on value is it sets up a future conflict based upon the state that a human has. It's based on a number of presumptions that only a particular set of arrangements of matter, well, matter. And those that matter happen to be watery sacks of meat.
So in your framework you setup a definition of what an external measurement of someones sentience state... Now, someone makes a machine that outputs those states and externally behaves as if it has sentience. What do you then? Upturn the table and get mad because your classification system no longer just contains humans?
So in your framework you setup a definition of what an external measurement of someones sentience state... Now, someone makes a machine that outputs those states and externally behaves as if it has sentience. What do you then? Upturn the table and get mad because your classification system no longer just contains humans?