Addendum: I don’t think we should be able to prove that Life Gliders lack values, merely because they have none. That might sound credible, but it may also violate the Von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Theorem. Or did you mean we should be able to prove it from analyzing their actual causal structure, not just by looking at behavior?
Even then, while the fact that gliders appear to lack values does happen to be connected to their lack of qualia or “internal experience,” those look like logically distinct concepts. I’m not sure where you’re going with this.
Addendum: I don’t think we should be able to prove that Life Gliders lack values, merely because they have none. That might sound credible, but it may also violate the Von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Theorem. Or did you mean we should be able to prove it from analyzing their actual causal structure, not just by looking at behavior?
Even then, while the fact that gliders appear to lack values does happen to be connected to their lack of qualia or “internal experience,” those look like logically distinct concepts. I’m not sure where you’re going with this.