One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others

Values serve self-expansion and fuller self-actualization.

The drives within one's values can propel self-transcendent recognition---what I term "empathetic identification."
Values are personally chosen beliefs, firm not rigid convictions. Values can be positive, that is, constructive and health-promoting, or harmful, that is, destructive and unhealthy.

Values are something you care about---a lot!

Values can “change the world." Values measure what people feel are desirable, vital, useful, and worthwhile.
They influence the direction of how we feel, think, and make choices---perform and behave.

The term “values” is shorthand for hinting at complex levels of imagination
It ranges from one’s dreams and their roots in unconscious night processes to more preconscious daydreams and conscious aspirations.
Values are potential capital fueled by hope and the motivation to expand and go forward.

Advances in neuroscience are making it plausible that such mental states are neural processes that combine cognition and emotion. Concepts operate in the brain as patterns of firing in populations of neurons that can work to classify objects and also make general inferences about them. S
uch neural representations are continuously bound with emotional activity carried out by populations of neurons in brain areas such as the amygdala, ventral striatum, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. From this perspective, values are neural processes resulting from binding cognitive representations of concepts, goals, and beliefs together with emotional attitudes.

The emotional component;

of values might seem to suggest that values are purely subjective, just a reflection of individual whims. In philosophical ethics, the positions called emotivism and expressivism demote value judgments to statements of personal preferences. Such views, however, reflect a naïve view of emotions, which are not just perceptions of physiological states. Emotions combine such perceptions with cognitive appraisals that reflect an estimate of the extent to which your current situation promotes or threatens your goals. Such appraisals can be evaluated based on how the situation actually does affect your goals and on how well the goals you are taking into account fit with your overall goals. Goals need not be arbitrary wants, but can derive from fundamental human needs, including both biological needs such as food, water, and shelter, and psychological needs for relatedness, competence, and autonomy.

Hence even though values are most plausibly viewed as neural processes, they can be objectively correct or incorrect based on the extent to which they fit with human needs

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