The evolutionary definition of good and bad
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:28 pm
Our good feelings (good moods) are the awareness of good value and worth to us in our lives. They are the awareness of joy, beauty, happiness, love, inspiration, etc. No way of thinking or attitude alone without your good feelings can give you this awareness. It is really no different than how no thought or attitude alone can give you the awareness of physical pain, sight, hearing, or smell when you are blind, deaf, can't smell, and are not in physical pain.
You can think to yourself and have the optimistic attitude that your life has good value and worth to you without your good feelings, but you would not actually be aware of that. Therefore, nothing would have any real good value and worth to you and you would only be fooling and deluding yourself into thinking otherwise. This whole concept also applies to our bad feelings (bad moods) and having neither our good nor bad feelings.
Our good and bad feelings are, therefore, chemical messages to our brains that tell us that certain things are good, bad, and worth something to us. It is the evolutionary definition of good, bad, and worth that scientists have yet to discover. This is my definition of good, bad, worth, joy, beauty, suffering, misery, etc. It is based upon my own personal experience.
I think certain things in life can hold good value in their own right such as that it was a good thing that we have freedom and democracy. You can sit there without your good feelings all you like and acknowledge how good this is. But none of that would actually be good to you. In order to experience (become aware) of the beautiful good value this has, then you need to feel good from that.
Any good value and worth in the lives of others or things and situations that hold good value and worth in their own right cannot be anything of good value and worth to us without our good feelings. For example, if you were blind and deaf, then you can acknowledge that others have sight and hearing. But that cannot be of any real sight and hearing to you.
Actually, according to my definition of good and bad, then I don't think there would be situations or things out there that would hold any good value, bad value, worth, joy, beauty, etc. in their own right and it is simply only a matter of our good and bad feelings that dictate the good and bad value and worth in our lives.
You can think to yourself and have the optimistic attitude that your life has good value and worth to you without your good feelings, but you would not actually be aware of that. Therefore, nothing would have any real good value and worth to you and you would only be fooling and deluding yourself into thinking otherwise. This whole concept also applies to our bad feelings (bad moods) and having neither our good nor bad feelings.
Our good and bad feelings are, therefore, chemical messages to our brains that tell us that certain things are good, bad, and worth something to us. It is the evolutionary definition of good, bad, and worth that scientists have yet to discover. This is my definition of good, bad, worth, joy, beauty, suffering, misery, etc. It is based upon my own personal experience.
I think certain things in life can hold good value in their own right such as that it was a good thing that we have freedom and democracy. You can sit there without your good feelings all you like and acknowledge how good this is. But none of that would actually be good to you. In order to experience (become aware) of the beautiful good value this has, then you need to feel good from that.
Any good value and worth in the lives of others or things and situations that hold good value and worth in their own right cannot be anything of good value and worth to us without our good feelings. For example, if you were blind and deaf, then you can acknowledge that others have sight and hearing. But that cannot be of any real sight and hearing to you.
Actually, according to my definition of good and bad, then I don't think there would be situations or things out there that would hold any good value, bad value, worth, joy, beauty, etc. in their own right and it is simply only a matter of our good and bad feelings that dictate the good and bad value and worth in our lives.