I understand it’s that little voice in our head. But whenever I look it up all I find is religious reasons why we have it and what it is. I myself believe in God but I want the true scientific reason for this “conscience”
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I view it as part of our meaning/valuation system, which is a series of instincts (physiological system we feel in our gut, bones, chest, butt clench, etc–aka, not just an idea).
Means it has a strong pack origin because we like to go with the flow of our “in group”. Also why people like some of the Alaskan inuits be like, “let’s just cover the road and eat the next trucker we see lulz” and that is fine to them. It’s their pack culture.
Basically our emotions frame patterns that we eventually call our values and virtues. Our values and virtues frame what we perceive as positive/desirable/good and negative/undesired/bad.
It’s really worth noting that the biological bodies we currently use have been this way 200,000 years. Same brain capacity. It is culture and circumstance that has done the “evolution” during that time (written word is 5000-6000ish years old). So don’t go discounting culture as “unreal”. It’s a hell of a force.
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