Does the Atheist have a soul? ( Archived) (269)

an ability to reason/select is a function of chemical responses within the cerebelum, left side more linear functions, right side more conceptual. For most people one side is more develeoped than the other, but there are people with equally developed sides as well as those with no developement at all. IN either case they are mutually dependant, for experience and awareness.




those would be your eyes, and awareness interpreting external reality. Not many people have room for trees in their brain. ..you're still avoiding the question...

What I am saying is that we (ego) made up the so-called reality.

What are our bodies but a combination of chemicals that can be purchased probably at a drug
store for a few cents. (consider inflation, too, though). All other 'things' that we 'see' outside
our bodies contain the same materials only rearranged differently. Our bodies will turn to
dust eventually. Our spirits continue.

lets assume for a minute, for our purpose that this soul is entity and I certainly beleive it is energy, a very proveable entity; but, we can even for you just say its some ghost, holy ghost if you like.

if this entity has its own information, its own abiltity to decide and choose course then you have just lost free will, yes?

Energy or holy ghost, soul, aura, spirit, whatever name you give it is not a cognizant entity. Its just energy. It responds according to the laws of physics and physical dynamics, providing life to bodies and in our case minds. Once the body dies, there is for you, no more cognizance, no more awareness, no more experience because the physical entity(body/ mind) that processes that energy is gone.

The energy will live on, because energy cant be created or destroyed but your 'percieved' presence will not. Presence depends on living cell structure,- awareness/consciouness depends on higher brain functions. Lose them and you no longer exist. local or non local.

oh ... well I thought you said earlier that god did?

and so called or not, its pretty real as realites go.

I don't know. You are providing a good discussion. thinking...

I would say that God created us 'souls' with free will. With our free will we became duelistic souls that
intended to create material things (it was so long ago, I'm trying to remember
We went so far as to create silly rules and strange religions, all kinds of contrasting concepts
and beliefs. Here is what we are left with. The EGO did it!! (not my fault - I'm a soul.)

The ego, our conscious sense of who we are,
is an affectively charged cluster of replicated
experience.
It is the central complex of consciousness whose
boundaries are fluid, malleable and easily violated.
We need ego to conduct the business of life, to
mobilize psychic energy and direct it towards
goals, to maintain a degree of self consistancy
and continuity so we can move forward from
day to day, context to context.
But the central project of ego is security which,
understandably, stands over against the massive
onslaught of energies from without.
From the ego's narrow view of the world, the
task is security, dominance and the cessation
of conflict.

Perhaps our ego has become corrupted. (from the mass consciousness and the replicated
experiences).