Some of the most heinous crimes have occurred in the name of love. Jeffery Dahmer loved his victims to death, then ate them. Who do the cops suspect 1st when the wife goes missing? How many women have drowned their own kids?
Fear, pain, love, are all evolutionary survival traits common is most mammal species. Get a tooth ache, it hurts like hell, because if you ignore it an infection can lead to sepsis causing death quickly
Beauty is subjective, you may think your girl is a 10 others say a 5 or lower.
Fear is most certainly a evolutionary trait. It reaches right into your brain stem, your reptile brain. If you witness anger or feel anger, fear is always the culprit. Breathing, your heart beat are both controlled by the brain stem.
More proof your emotions and feeling are biological and not from a mystic dreamer being. Witness stroke victims or Alzheimer patients. They experience a loss of emotion, fear, love, as their brain functions are diminished. Cut you toe off and it hurts like hell, but you retain 100% brain function. Damage your brain and you may not even know you are alive.
The QFT has no idea if are dead or alive, to Quantium Fields you are simply E=MC2, always have been and always will be to infinity.
Now you are spitting pure reductionism!
But you are right about one thing...
The brain plays a massive role in how we process reality.
Damage it, and perception warps, emotions vanish and memories dissolve.
But that doesn't prove consciousness originates in the brain, only that the brain is a receiver, not the source.
Break a radio and the music stops.
But the signal?
It's still playing.
You reduce love, beauty, and fear to evolutionary tricks.
But if that’s all they are, explain this...
Why does a mother risk her life to save a child she just met?
Or why do humans give their lives for ideals they can’t touch or measure?
What you say depends on meaning being chemical, emotion being mechanical, and life being a glitch of entropy.
But if that were true, you wouldn’t be debating meaning.
You would be reacting to stimuli like every other animal.
Instead, you are writing philosophy.
Asking questions no algorithm can answer.
That’s not instinct.
It’s conscious awareness.
And as for QFT?
Sure, it doesn’t care if yo are alive or dead.
Because it’s a framework, not a being.
It maps the terrain, but it doesn’t explain the traveler.
It describes how energy becomes form but not why consciousness witnesses it at all.
You are not just E=MC².
You are the witness of energy.
The navigator of matter.
And yes, you are the dream of the Divine, awakening in form.
Cut off a toe and you scream.
But damage your brain… and sometimes, the soul leaves.
Not gone, but free!