Ethics and morals don't exist at nature's most fundamental level. No right or wrong exists in the realm of elementary particles. Insects and plants don't care about fairness or equality. Monkeys and apes can show some signs of concern for justice, but the battle between good and evil plays out in the human dimension.
The human brain consists of billions of nerve cells, which are interconnected through dendrites and axons. Moreover, all human brains are interconnected, forming an enormous mind-web that Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere. Here is where the battle between the light and the dark forces unfolds.
You have to choose a side. You can't just sit there on the fence forever. The problem is that you don't know which side is good. Many decent middle-class Germans chose to support Hitler in the 1930s. They believed he would save them from Jews and communists. For those who survived, it took decades to come to terms with the fact that they had sold their soul to the devil.
Sodium and potassium ions flow in and out through the membranes in the axon, thus creating an electric signal that reaches a synapse, which then releases transmitter substances that activate another neuron.
Ions flowing in and out of neurons create all your thoughts, emotions, dreams, and fantasies. Even your true self is made in this way, like a genie that appears from a magic lamp when you rub it.
You are not the chemicals you are made of. Your mind and soul, as well as angels and demons, are not found in your neurons and their electrochemical reactions. You exist in another dimension.
These words consist of electric bits. But you are not reading bits; you are reading words. The letters in a book consist of ink, but you are not reading ink. Words mean something, while ink is just ink.
You are not your genetic code and the cells you are made of. The law of the jungle does not apply here in this dimension.
The geosphere is the inanimate matter, the biosphere is the animate sphere, and the noosphere is the mental sphere, but I believe there is also a fourth sphere: the mystic sphere. I am not a dualist; I am a quattuoralist.
