Materialism
Hello Rabbi,
I recently read an article about the explanations for the feeling of love. I saw in them purely materialistic explanations without any metaphysical intervention. Love does indeed feel real and metaphysical, but it seems to be only an illusion that it is so according to the results of experiments and brain tests. Where then does the spirit come in? If after all there is a physical explanation for everything (except consciousness of course, which in my opinion is a completely spiritual thing and it is very difficult for me to understand how materialists justify this) the bottom line – where can I find the soul?
There are explanations for everything on earth. But materialistic explanations do not offer an explanation for love but describe the way it happens. Just as people walk with their feet, think with their brains, and love with their amygdala. The question of who makes the decision is a different question.
See at length in the books on the science of freedom.
You ask a question about consciousness. And the fact that you ask specifically about love raises the concern that the body-mind problem is unfamiliar to you. There is no difference between the experience of love and the experience of hearing, seeing, thinking, understanding, or any other experience that you experience. They all occur in your consciousness.
Already in the distant past, several wise Greeks understood that the mind (unlike the body) is related to the movement of atoms. Which in the age of smartphones, the average educated person does not understand. In any case, even at this stage of the complexity of the mind, the explanations for it do not deserve to be called materialist. These are issues related to information theory, not chemistry. And there is no fundamental difference between what a computer can do and what a brain can do.
But here you are asking about consciousness, which is aware of certain parts of the mind (so it seems). There is no explanation for this and no direction for explanation.
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