Given that animals don’t act like expected utility maximizers, what do you mean when you talk about their values? For humans, you can ground a definition of “true values” in philosophical reflection (and reflection about how that reflection relates to their true values, and so on), but non-human animals can’t do philosophy.
Given that animals don’t act like expected utility maximizers, what do you mean when you talk about their values? For humans, you can ground a definition of “true values” in philosophical reflection (and reflection about how that reflection relates to their true values, and so on), but non-human animals can’t do philosophy.
Why do you think so? Higher animals behave very much like humans.
I would not consider it a disadvantage, or to mean that they don’t have a version of values.
Depending how you define EU maximisation, everything us doing it, nothing is doing it, and many points in between.