What is 'objective' value?

[Angrboda]

For many, I think, the word 'objective' becomes little more than a buzzword that when added to a claim means something like "really really" true. I don't question that you believe that life has objective value or inherent value, I question that you actually mean anything by this. When I say that the speed of light is an objective limit in our universe, I am implicitly saying that the phenomena occurs independent of any minds or opinions view of the matter, that the equations have no subjective element and thus the 'what', light's speed, will occur independent of minds. In order for the words you're using to be more than buzzwords, you need to explain the 'what'. How does value occur independent of minds. What is a value and how does that nature of what a value is support the notion that it can occur outside of minds?

I've already given my how — value occurs when an agent desires one outcome more than another because of a project or goal that the agent finds requires the thing or outcome valued. This is because evolution creates a bias (an imbalanced flow) in favor of forming and completing projects that are relevant to its existence. We create projects because it feels good to do so; we value things because it reinforces the feelings about our projects; we have these feelings because our ancestors who had them survived better than those that did not have them.

This is an example of an explanation of the 'how'. If you don't have a similar explanation for inherent value / objective value, then you're just mouthing empty words.