Evolutionary biology convincingly explains how physical and mental traits get selected in species. Sexual dichotomy, male dominance, female hypergamy... everything.

The experiences you have are neurotransmitters and neurons responding to chemicals your glands release into your bloodstream... that's it.

Every experience of love, despair, jealousy, pride... whatever. That's you having a conversation with yourself. There's no magical component... no spiritual mechanism... no transcendent reality. It's just blood music...

Many of you will object to this conclusion and proclaim your heartfelt and concrete spirituality, and how real it is in your life.

There is exactly zero evidence to support your conclusion, and mountains of evidence supporting a scientific explanation for all of it.

Is a spiritual or magical component possible in this life? Of course... (Although there's a strong argument that anything perceived as spiritual is simply undiscovered science) But there is no compelling reason to believe anything on insufficient evidence.

William of Occam:

What's more likely?

  • An all knowing creator is behind everything and we can occasionally tap into this magical reality behind the curtain?

or

  • These spiritual experiences were selected as having some advantage by evolution.

As men you experience "true love" because that mechanism has benefits which made your ancestors more successful breeders... same thing with female hypergamy.

Back to the Matrix... spoon boy is correct.

"Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth...there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."

Remember that feeling of intimacy and love with a woman? Remember how shocking it was to watch her betray that experience for some superficial nonsense?

It was shocking to you but not to her... because she never experienced what you did. You inherited that physical and mental ability to have that intimate experience because it made your ancestors more successful breeders than other men with less of that ability... nothing more.