Atheism and morality

[Inigo]

If that is your definition of morality than the thing you sense is the electrical/chemical pattern of nerve firings in your brain/the pattern of nerve connections, or loosely the concept. The reasonable assumption that we all want mostly the same things. This is a thing.

Are we done yet?

You are confusing the cause of a sensation with what the sensation is 'of'. When I have the visual sensation that there is a chair in front of me I am not seeing an electrical pattern of nerve firings. Those things may cause or even constitute my sensation. But they are not what the sensation is 'of'.

My visual sensation of a chair is a hallucination if there is no chair there. The sensation will have a cause. one can talk about nerve firings and so on. But it would be fallacious to infer that because nerve firings cause the sensation, the sensation is 'of' nerve firings. By that confused logic all sensations are 'of' nerve firings.