Emotions are the key, they are the most complex and diverse of all the forces in nature. In today's day and age as we try to study consciousness, we attempt to design machines to emulate human thinking and emotion. But, algorithms and chemical reactions are not the same as the human brain. Machines can predict, analyze and ideate. Machines cannot emote in an autonomous manner (yet). Biological consciousness might be responsible for firing certain neurons to make us smile, but the correspondence of the stimulus and the reaction is one yet to be precisely modeled. Animals and humans both display basic emotions of pain, anger and such that are necessary for survival. These emotions are fairly easy to understand and replicate. They are mental responses to physical experiences. But, there are more complex emotions that can be classified as moral emotions that are only seen in certain species, humans being one of them. Spirituality and ethics are the construct of an advanced human mind. ...
