The brain is likely a computer. Sufficiently advanced neuroscience will likely solve most of our confusion about what our values are, what makes us happy, etc. You want to have rewards in the present moment and not have regret (negative reward) in the future moment due to actions in the present monent. Maximising total reward integrated across time is a mathematically well defined problem if you mathematically define an environment and a reward function as a function of brain state.
The brain is likely a computer. Sufficiently advanced neuroscience will likely solve most of our confusion about what our values are, what makes us happy, etc. You want to have rewards in the present moment and not have regret (negative reward) in the future moment due to actions in the present monent. Maximising total reward integrated across time is a mathematically well defined problem if you mathematically define an environment and a reward function as a function of brain state.