Morality is rooted in survival and is a trait that all species have in some form. From the very first organism on earth through to our present day complexity, the need to survive is the primary function of all life.
Moralities first real wave came with the first social animals, survival became about more than looking after your own back, safety in numbers was discovered and found to be so obvious and effective that it required a new priority, look after yourself first and foremost - but keep your kind on good terms in case you need them.
That morality grew, most likely because of the way the brain works, more specifically how memory works. Survival is the innate instinct, society is the way to survive and pleasure is associated with success. Pleasure is a drug all life craves, and if ones primary criteria of pleasure or happiness is survival, then everything that ensures survival will be inevitably associated with happiness and pleasure in the mind. This means over time the society will become inevitably linked to the pleasure of successfully surviving, leading to solidarity and sociality them selves becoming things associated with happiness.
It all leads from there, a gradual network of associations stemming from survival.
Moralities first real wave came with the first social animals, survival became about more than looking after your own back, safety in numbers was discovered and found to be so obvious and effective that it required a new priority, look after yourself first and foremost - but keep your kind on good terms in case you need them.
That morality grew, most likely because of the way the brain works, more specifically how memory works. Survival is the innate instinct, society is the way to survive and pleasure is associated with success. Pleasure is a drug all life craves, and if ones primary criteria of pleasure or happiness is survival, then everything that ensures survival will be inevitably associated with happiness and pleasure in the mind. This means over time the society will become inevitably linked to the pleasure of successfully surviving, leading to solidarity and sociality them selves becoming things associated with happiness.
It all leads from there, a gradual network of associations stemming from survival.
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