The Transcended Omniverse
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I have paid very close attention to what the experience of my good feelings (moods) are for me and they truly are the experience of good value and worth in of themselves. It is no different than a situation where a person in physical pain can clearly indicate what the experience is for him/her such as that it was a stabbing, burning, or scratching pain. They would not be labels (descriptors and judgments) that he/she would be applying to his/her physical pain. Rather, this is what the experience of his/her physical pain is really like for him/her.
Since the experience of my good feelings is clearly an experience of good value/worth in my life and since no other experience gives my life any good value/worth which makes all other experiences either dead, lifeless, and mechanical or horrible and miserable, then I have come to the conclusion that there is an evolutionary definition of good and bad that science has yet to discover and I am going to explain it below:
Just because different people judge different things as good/bad, joyful, happy, beautiful, horrible, and pleasant/unpleasant doesn't mean that they are personally defined. For example, there are people out there who believe in life after death and there are people who believe death is final, but that does not mean that whether there is life after death or not is something personally defined. There is life after death or there isn't life after death regardless of your personal point of view.
This would also apply to good/bad and pleasant/unpleasant. When a certain stimulus sends the feel-good signal to your brain and that induces a good feeling (a good mood), then that is the "good" signal to your brain. That is evolution's way of telling you that a certain stimulus is good and worth something to you. It can be good for a number of reasons. For example, if you felt good from playing a video game, it could be because of a certain character you admire or because you really love the level you are playing. Bad (unpleasant) feelings would be evolution's way of telling you that a certain situation or stimulus is bad and to avoid it or solve it.
Therefore, this would be the evolutionary definition of good and bad. It is a whole new definition of good and bad that scientists have yet to discover. We have a thought version of good, bad, and worth which would be the personally defined version of good, bad, and worth where you personally define what you think is good and bad and what makes your life worth living.
But this version of good, bad, and worth is fake. It does not give good or bad value to your life and it doesn't make your life worth living. It is instead the feeling version of good and bad that gives real good and bad value to your life. As long as you feel good, then that is the experience of good value in your life and that is the experience of a life worth living regardless of how you judge that feeling, what situational context that good feeling is in, what your attitude is, etc.
There are different definitions of good, bad, and worth out there. However, none of them give your life real good or bad value or worth. The sole factor that determines the value and worth of your life is the evolutionary definition of good, bad, and worth. That is, how you feel.
Remember, personally defining a good or bad feeling in your life without your good or bad moods does not make it so just as how a blind or deaf person thinking he or she can see or hear does not make it so either. Personal definitions should be ignored here. What actually determines whether you are having a good feeling or not is what it is you are actually experiencing.
So, with all of this being said, if you felt bad from doing a certain act and you judged it to be good since it was changing your life for the better, then that would not bring your life any real good value since you did not feel good from that. Everything without our good feelings are nothing more than acts, tones, gestures, attitudes, etc. regardless of what the situation is and regardless of our personal judgments.
In other words, if I was feeling good at the circus since I was having fun riding rides and my mother was in danger, then I would think to myself that it would be a bad thing to just leave her in danger and I would go save her life. However, that would not actually bring my life any bad value since I was feeling good. Rather, it would just simply be a situation where I realize that my mother is in danger and that I wish to save her.
Our good feelings are the only experience of real value, real worth, real joy, real happiness, real love, real beauty, real inspiration, etc. They are all there is to life and to the human experience.
Since the experience of my good feelings is clearly an experience of good value/worth in my life and since no other experience gives my life any good value/worth which makes all other experiences either dead, lifeless, and mechanical or horrible and miserable, then I have come to the conclusion that there is an evolutionary definition of good and bad that science has yet to discover and I am going to explain it below:
Just because different people judge different things as good/bad, joyful, happy, beautiful, horrible, and pleasant/unpleasant doesn't mean that they are personally defined. For example, there are people out there who believe in life after death and there are people who believe death is final, but that does not mean that whether there is life after death or not is something personally defined. There is life after death or there isn't life after death regardless of your personal point of view.
This would also apply to good/bad and pleasant/unpleasant. When a certain stimulus sends the feel-good signal to your brain and that induces a good feeling (a good mood), then that is the "good" signal to your brain. That is evolution's way of telling you that a certain stimulus is good and worth something to you. It can be good for a number of reasons. For example, if you felt good from playing a video game, it could be because of a certain character you admire or because you really love the level you are playing. Bad (unpleasant) feelings would be evolution's way of telling you that a certain situation or stimulus is bad and to avoid it or solve it.
Therefore, this would be the evolutionary definition of good and bad. It is a whole new definition of good and bad that scientists have yet to discover. We have a thought version of good, bad, and worth which would be the personally defined version of good, bad, and worth where you personally define what you think is good and bad and what makes your life worth living.
But this version of good, bad, and worth is fake. It does not give good or bad value to your life and it doesn't make your life worth living. It is instead the feeling version of good and bad that gives real good and bad value to your life. As long as you feel good, then that is the experience of good value in your life and that is the experience of a life worth living regardless of how you judge that feeling, what situational context that good feeling is in, what your attitude is, etc.
There are different definitions of good, bad, and worth out there. However, none of them give your life real good or bad value or worth. The sole factor that determines the value and worth of your life is the evolutionary definition of good, bad, and worth. That is, how you feel.
Remember, personally defining a good or bad feeling in your life without your good or bad moods does not make it so just as how a blind or deaf person thinking he or she can see or hear does not make it so either. Personal definitions should be ignored here. What actually determines whether you are having a good feeling or not is what it is you are actually experiencing.
So, with all of this being said, if you felt bad from doing a certain act and you judged it to be good since it was changing your life for the better, then that would not bring your life any real good value since you did not feel good from that. Everything without our good feelings are nothing more than acts, tones, gestures, attitudes, etc. regardless of what the situation is and regardless of our personal judgments.
In other words, if I was feeling good at the circus since I was having fun riding rides and my mother was in danger, then I would think to myself that it would be a bad thing to just leave her in danger and I would go save her life. However, that would not actually bring my life any bad value since I was feeling good. Rather, it would just simply be a situation where I realize that my mother is in danger and that I wish to save her.
Our good feelings are the only experience of real value, real worth, real joy, real happiness, real love, real beauty, real inspiration, etc. They are all there is to life and to the human experience.
