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If by "inherent" we mean "contained within itself", then it depends on whether this human (or sentient life) attributes value to its own existence.
This may seem like wordplay to you, but it's as meaningful an answer as can be given -- sentient life has inherent value if it values itself, because it's then that it has value contained within itself.
By contrast things like rainbows have only value in the minds of others, no inherent value in themselves, because rainbows don't have value systems, only creatures with minds do.