Mind the gap

Subject: Mind the gap.

The concept that morality and ethics are in some way fundamental and sit outside the complexity of each individual, like some sort of law applying to human's, some sort of law to which we are all governed, all praised or damned, is questioned by the branch of philosophy called neurophilosophy, an attempt to rationalise and equate the mind with the physical functioning of the brain.
The mind has always been felt to be, off base, a product of not only of our sensory input through the eyes, ears and nose or the brains inter connectivity with memory and the flight/fight mechanism where we instinctively react to stimuli, all culminating in our emotional senses where we follow the trends of what is thought to be acceptable by the society we happen to live in. But was also thought to be something else, something which some how lies outside our brain and it's somewhat mechanistic capacity to compute incoming sensory information. 
The idea that 'moral norms' such as "thou shalt not kill" could be viewed as subjective if you addressed the question to a child solder or someone staving in a war zone with death all around them was thought to fly against some sort of basic instinct we all should have locked away as some sort of instinctive mechanism bequeathed by god. 
It is argued that our sensory perception of the world can also describe our moral and ethical perception and setting our moral compass is a product of our upbringing, which can include an indoctrination of religious ideology as well as the rules are laid out by ISIS  Morals I believe are a function of this world not some mystical essence which mankind is blessed with to guide it through the ups and downs of this short life on earth. The brevity of our lives and the myriad starting points a baby has, the sheer complexity of inputs and the social structures must put question this over-arching moral and ethical surety, supposedly observed in the west 
Tying our actions to some Devine proposition as to what is right and what is wrong has a nice ring to it but mankind's self orientated ability to think and modify its assumptions according to circumstances means that the mind, which takes its prompts from past, current and future considerations is more flexible than a philosophical determinate.