The soul's blends

Releases oxytocin and lowers the fear of betrayal. It lets you bond and cooperate.

Releases dopamine before the reward. It prepares you and gets you moving.

Generate deep bonding and ensure mutual protection.

Warn that you've violated a personal or group value. Drive repair.

Protect belonging by avoiding behaviors that would exclude you from the group.

Keep the system operational toward the future.

Detect external threats to a vital bond.

Strengthen social cohesion through the exchange of benefits.

Set moral distance from something deemed inferior.

Identify your own gaps through others' achievements.

Generate rejection of your own action so you don't repeat it.

Readjust expectations when reality doesn't meet the plan.

Reinforce self-esteem and status after reaching an achievement.

Keep the system active in highly uncertain environments.

Drive action to relieve another's suffering.

Mobilize resources to correct an external ethical wrong.

It arises before something so immense that your mind has to reorganize to take it in.

The bittersweet of recalling something good that's gone: sorrow for the loss and warmth for having lived it.

The itch to know what you don't yet know. The most pleasurable engine of learning.