In the oblivion lying beneath the mind, there exists four powerful people, who were previous, current, and prospective rulers, with different brain capacities. The first has a simple and a primitive one, which allows him to have an immediate response given a particular stimulus. The second has a brain that is bigger and has evolved a memory, which allows him to remember stimuli that happened in a previous timeframe along with their respective responses. The third has a more evolved brain, which has allowed logic, or those processing not associated with direct responses. The fourth one on the other hand claims to have more than a brain, which is still subject to the criticism of the other three rulers.
We set our story during the time when the human parts decided they needed a new authority. For the benefit of the story, we can consider them the citizens. The citizens clamored for a major change in governance, thinking they'd be of better use under the direction of a wiser ruler.
At that time, the kingdom Human Being was governed by Rationalism, which was the most preferred ideology of the third ruler himself. Upon coming to know about the commotion, the third ruler was very furious. He gathered both the first and the second ruler to discuss about this catastrophe and to later ask them to join him defend the throne which he thinks is rightfully his.
First Ruler: I'm here as called.
Second Ruler: My friend, I would have immediately refused your request had I not remembered the contract we had agreed upon when I allowed you to sit on my then throne. Had I not remembered the promised benefit....
Third Ruler: Gentlemen, the reason I called you here was because of an apparent threat that is trying to break the bonds I have with my subjects and even with you. With this perceived end to my authority, everything can turn out to be a total failure. I infer with the data I have gathered that this threat has nothing but ungrounded reasons. He claims that our country can experience feelings such as love even if the whole body parts cease to exist. But is it not clearly impossible for them to experience an idea such as this without them coming into beings first?
First Ruler: I think I would agree, my friend. For if the stomach factory is not working, there'll be no food for our subjects. And if there's no food for our subjects, then they'll be hungry. But my friend, I cannot understand what you mean by being able to experience love not thru physical means. I cannot comprehend beyond what cannot be acted upon from direct stimuli.
Second Ruler: Surely brother, that's why I replaced you. Forgive me if you find this offensive but you can't, and I can, know what may seem to you as not existing. What I think about this love is that it is simply a delayed feeling of pleasure, which may still translate to the expectation of a certain greater benefit.
First Ruler: Can you give a more vivid example?
Second Ruler: Remember, if you can, that when you were the ruler, you asked your subjects to work based solely on immediate rewards or punishments. When they conquered the Food Island, you rewarded them with authentic Good Hormones and had them and the entire kingdom to work solely based on this pleasurable experience. And remember when an enemy kingdom attacked our borders at the east, you simply tried avoiding them, and when an allied kingdom sent help to us from our western defences, you even tried killing their troops had they not retreated fast enough. Such despicable instinctual behaviours! I pity you that you were not even capable to recognize their flag.
First Ruler: Very harsh words indeed! I would have had my most loyal subjects killed you right there and then had you uttered those words during my reign.
Third Ruler: Calm down my friend, for I have not called you to fight each other, but to aid me in fighting against this more serious enemy.
Second Ruler: Pardon us. As I was saying, love for that matter is nothing more than a word associated with future and indirect benefits. For my brain allows me to think beyond what is contemporary, I see greater rewards in the future from what appears now to be a simple satisfaction, or even a temporary distress. Not to brag about this, but during my reign, I wasn't just able to conquer a variety of Food Islands, but had even transformed my governance to a form not considered as brute. For when we had acquired our first few Food Islands, I urged my subjects not to feel the need to eliminate these islands' previous inhabitants, nor have the greed to feed on all of these abundant resources; for they who had previously ruled these Islands have the ultimate capacity to make it flourish more, which can give us not much resources had we killed them and did the maintenance ourselves. Instead, focus was needed on conquering other Islands, or better said as creating more relationships to the rulers who had created them. And this, my friends, is the most precise meaning of love; that is the expectation of far greater rewards from the rulers we had come to have agreements with. Thus, we then loved these rulers.
Third Ruler: Well said, mate. But my faithful servants who work in the Hypothalamus den...
Second Ruler: Pardon me but what den is that?
Third Ruler: Oh I forgot to tell you; and by the way, don't be insulted that I had forgotten for I tell you that though my memory is still aiding me in my decisions, I have a lot of other agencies that get me to decide on more abstract matters that may not be true to other kingdoms whom we have transactions with; it's called being rational. Anyways, since my reign, I have discovered that Heart is simply an imaginary representation of what was hidden deep in the forest of Science: the den of Hypothalamus. For I tell the two of you, that this brain of mine allows me to question the behaviours of the very subjects I am governing. I wished both of you to have had the same capacity.
Second Ruler: Ha! I'm starting to doubt whether you're even governing this kingdom well despite your petty works that not only does it have no output, it only serves to expand your own logic.
Third Ruler: I only wish that you can be enlightened that my works serve the purpose far greater than having this kingdom to just do something. To keep us back on track, I was saying that my faithful servants who work in the den claim that the hormones they provide are independent of the expectations the citizens have laid in the Bank of Promises. In the near future, this kingdom will forever be united with another kingdom which has stimulating and unfamiliar sexual taverns. The problem again is that I see my citizens getting excited for reasons contrary to what I have; as if realizing that a far greater force is controlling this government.
First Ruler: I would see that the excitement is caused by the provision of hormones, but these workers must have the reason for doing such things, or else they would be as you call them irrational.
Third Ruler: Indeed, and being irrational cannot exist unless there is something that exists beyond what is physical.
Second Ruler: And as far as I can remember, this is what the fourth ruler is trying to embody, his claimed capacity to decide based on what doesn't exist.
Third ruler: And his bases, not only in the essence of love, are hypocritical and even an insult to the way we have ruled the three generations since your time, my friend.
First Ruler: So why not just cancel this whole idea of unity with this kingdom of beautiful rosy taverns, if what you say can lead to a catastrophe?
Third Ruler: That, I cannot do. For if I do such an act, I would be considered a man that doesn't act based on reason; and for what grounds can I convince my subjects not to overthrow me if I have the same characteristics as the fourth, and even less? What the current signals of the Hypothalamus den, my logic, and the battle cry of the citizens tell me cannot be ignored, for in reality, I do not have the freedom to choose what isn't driven by the physical manifestations of this kingdom. My friends, we love because of the interplay of the physical characters of my subjects.
First Ruler: ...at least, as how I governed my people, all are based on the stimuli at the point in time.
Second Ruler: So are you saying that something far greater than us exists to infer independence of thought and actions from what is manifested physically?
Third Ruler: Yes, and imagine that this kingdom had been governed not by us after all, but by someone who by all means physical proof can't back. This is totally absurd! I cannot let this pass. My friends, my best plan would be to lure them into thinking that independence of thought can exist without acknowledging the totality of what doesn't exist in the physical realm. Of course, you can help me with this.
First Ruler: But you cannot act based on what doesn't exist. It's contrary to your belief!
Third Ruler: Then, we have to at least convince the fourth to be appointed under my jurisdictions. He practically cannot argue against me, for I have all the reasons and them alone to back my claims, and he has what, a revolutionary consideration of what might exist and cannot be proven to exist?
Second Ruler: So what exactly is your plan?
Third Ruler: Simple, my subjects want independence of the manifestations of the other body parts? Then I'll put up an institution of Free Will.
First Ruler: But how can you not consider that such an institution can lead to the realization of this great foreign existence?
Third Ruler: Did you forget how you once governed the citizens based on hormonal rewards alone? Combine that with the institution itself. Sooner or later, they'll feel that the provision of this institution has allowed them to doubt the existence of everything. There may be chaos, but alas, I'll resolve this issue once again, and use the very institution I'll be putting up to let them destroy it, for they'll doubt that they even have the independence of thought.
Second Ruler: I hope this works, for I cannot think how the fourth will not think through this plan.
Third Ruler: Good thing he'll be under my command then.
The kingdom, so advanced and complex that we cannot even know how the plan turned out to be, closed his gates from any wandering mind who wanted to spy on it and divulge the whole plan. Even at this time, we are left wondering as to whether or not they have succeeded, whether or not the third ruler was overthrown, and whether or not the whole story even existed at all.
