There are no higher emotions/values

[Transcended Dimensions]

Positive emotions are the end result of a chemical reaction in the brain, nothing more.  Assigning them divine status in any way, shape, or form, is utterly ridiculous.

Also, the simplistic "positive emotions is the good life, negative emotions is the bad life" is idiotic.  For one, the idea of positive and negative emotions is largely arbitrary.  It's how we act on those emotions that gives meaning to them.  'Negative' emotions - anger, fear, hate, etc. - can and have been the catalyst for good.  'Positive' emotions - love, joy, bliss, etc. - can and have been the catalyst for harm.

In the end, how one feels doesn't usually mean anything.  It's what one does that matters.  What impact they've made, what mark they've made.

I vehemently disagree based upon my own personal experience which was something powerful and profound. I mean, I do agree that negative emotions can benefit us and others and that positive emotions can result in harm towards ourselves and others. But I still disagree that there is more value to life than our emotions.

Besides, there is the emotional perceptual theory though and many emotional theorists and neuroscientists support this theory (although there are some people who disagree with it). I will present it here. My arguments and personal experience support this theory. This theory says that emotions are the perception of value and I have created a religious form of this theory:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/...11.00518.x