primal instinct

I got out of my PSYC 100 class feeling like I'd learned a lot. We got to watch a movie that talked about the animal instinct of our brain vs. the higher part of our brain. It was really cool that we could possibly know how our brain processes information. However, it was kind of sad for me because it totally portrayed us as beings you could break down with science when we are so complex and God made each of us very special. It makes me sad that we know alcohol turns off our higher brain and has us working on instincts and primative urges. The primative part of our brain rewards us with pleasure when we do something to further our existence (i.e. eat, drink, sleep, reproduce) and we're totally cool with manipulating that. It's sad because we're meant for so much more than hedonism. It's sad that we know alcohol shuts off our normal brain processes and yet we drink in excess. It's sad that we talk about the pleasure our lower brain gives us from participating in a sexual act but we don't talk about the heart that's broken after the dopamines die off. I dunno...just my thoughts on a very enlightening class...lata peeps