They are exactly what they appear to be. Chemical and electrical reactions in your brain. Just because they aren't what you want them to be doesn't make them nonexistent, or take away from their meaning or importance.
You are saying that because experiences like love and beauty are just constructs that come from chemical reactions in your brain, that suddenly they subjectively have no meaning? That is just patently ridiculous.
This is the problem with ideas like yours. You've got it all figured out. You define things such that these 'higher' concepts like courage, right, and wrong are these transcendent things outside of our ability to measure and understand them. So we stand in awe of them, but we gain no knowledge from them. All attempts to understand them are futile, right? So fuck all the neurologists attempting to understand them, they are beating their heads against a wall, right? It's god, why try to understand these things empirically? Nevermind the strides in behavioral science and neurology that could come from this research, goddidit.
You are saying that because experiences like love and beauty are just constructs that come from chemical reactions in your brain, that suddenly they subjectively have no meaning? That is just patently ridiculous.
This is the problem with ideas like yours. You've got it all figured out. You define things such that these 'higher' concepts like courage, right, and wrong are these transcendent things outside of our ability to measure and understand them. So we stand in awe of them, but we gain no knowledge from them. All attempts to understand them are futile, right? So fuck all the neurologists attempting to understand them, they are beating their heads against a wall, right? It's god, why try to understand these things empirically? Nevermind the strides in behavioral science and neurology that could come from this research, goddidit.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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