I was reading DISCOVER The Year In Science. It tells me that affection stems from the need to protect social networks, moral values can be changed by magnetic fields, and when love is felt, the part of your brain that gets activated is its reward system: in heartbreak, the neural pathways associated with cravings and addictions get activated, as well as those regions associated with distress and physical pain. I translate that to meaning that my affection is subconsciously selfish, my moral integrity is determined not by my soul but which neural pathways in my brain are activated, and the feeling of love is based also on selfish gain as indicated by the desire for rewards and cravings when it's gone.
Science makes me feel like everything I feel is simply because of logic based on self preservation and comfort. Knowing that my affection and love for others exists due to selfish gain makes me not want to feel affection or love at all. What meaning does it have if it's just subconscious self preservation and a change in my brain chemistry can change my ability to love and decide and do Good?
Where does my soul play into this? How does my soul play into this?
Science is a Good thing. I want to know how.
1/5/11
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