psychology

Help me understand please, are consciousness, experience, and point of view the things that make humans intrinsically valuable?

Web2/Web3 developer and builder of grassroots decentralized culture and governance. I’m not a maximalist of any kind, but I am trying to minimize life regret.

My coffee take...value is not intrinsic, it is a human concept that is placed upon something due to its relations with us. Like, air is valuable because we need it, gold is valuable because it has come to work as a means of organizing a society. So, humanity itself is the only intrinsically valuable thing there is, since without it value itself could not exist.

I think value is relative. If we look at a person’s value from the perspective of the universe or life on our planet, I doubt it exists at all. But from the perspective of other people, in most cases, probably yes- the inner world, personal experience, and what makes a personality unique. Yet sometimes external factors are also valuable - appearance, athletic performance, or wealth.