Science works because we specifically don't trust our minds and our perceived logic and reason. But anyway....
Raising morality and love above any other instinctive and learned behaviour is really just emotive wishful thinking driven by a desire for purpose in life. The fact that most but not all humans feel discomfort when faced with the death of another shows this instinctive morality. The fact that societies build their own varied collective "moral code" shows this learned morality. The fact that people's sense of morality can be altered by mental illnesses, drugs, psychological manipulation, collective pressure etc etc, shows that morality is entirely routed within our own minds.
Love is no different in this way. We have no evidence to suggest that people with severe brain damage experience the feeling of love. Children that have suffered systematic abuse often grow up with severe problems forming normal relationships and are in many ways incapable of love. They have to relearn the behaviours of normal relationships during a long period of recovery.
We may never have a complete understanding of how our instinctive and learned behaviours and our emotional feelings manifest themselves within our consciousness, nor how our consciousness itself arises, but we have no reason to believe they are anything but the consequences of natural processes.
Raising morality and love above any other instinctive and learned behaviour is really just emotive wishful thinking driven by a desire for purpose in life. The fact that most but not all humans feel discomfort when faced with the death of another shows this instinctive morality. The fact that societies build their own varied collective "moral code" shows this learned morality. The fact that people's sense of morality can be altered by mental illnesses, drugs, psychological manipulation, collective pressure etc etc, shows that morality is entirely routed within our own minds.
Love is no different in this way. We have no evidence to suggest that people with severe brain damage experience the feeling of love. Children that have suffered systematic abuse often grow up with severe problems forming normal relationships and are in many ways incapable of love. They have to relearn the behaviours of normal relationships during a long period of recovery.
We may never have a complete understanding of how our instinctive and learned behaviours and our emotional feelings manifest themselves within our consciousness, nor how our consciousness itself arises, but we have no reason to believe they are anything but the consequences of natural processes.
