An agent’s revealed preferences are distinct from the agent’s feelings of desire. The Beethoven monster can be seen to risk its own life to hear Beethoven, but that doesn’t mean it has a strong feeling of desire. The data could just as well be explained by a lack of strong desire to keep living. Or the agent could lack any emotions we would call “desire” or “desperation”. In the latter two cases, the argument doesn’t seem clear to me.
An agent’s revealed preferences are distinct from the agent’s feelings of desire. The Beethoven monster can be seen to risk its own life to hear Beethoven, but that doesn’t mean it has a strong feeling of desire. The data could just as well be explained by a lack of strong desire to keep living. Or the agent could lack any emotions we would call “desire” or “desperation”. In the latter two cases, the argument doesn’t seem clear to me.