(July 30, 2015 at 11:00 am)Little Rik Wrote:(July 30, 2015 at 10:34 am)Alex K Wrote: The brain actively constructs a perception of the body boundary. Taking drugs, e.g. LSD, will mess with this protocol, and you will feel your body bleed into the surroundings. There is the opposite effect where you will perceive body parts as not belonging to you e.g. due to some disruption of brain function.
All this says absolutely nothing about an actual separate mental or spiritual component of existence. From studies of split brain patients, it has become amply clear that the unity of the self is basically an illusion which the brain actively keeps up in order for us to be able to function. Your intuitions from observation of your self are not reliable.
When one of the 3 horses doesn't do his job for some reason the other 2 horses are unable to proceed straight
even if they are in perfect condition.
Just imagine having a cart in which 2 horses try to pull the cart and the other horse for some reason is not moving.
It is next to impossible.
In this case there is chaos and you can not really understand what is going on.
Medical science can study and study and study but until it will take in consideration all 3 aspect of our self there is no way it will be able to understand how the system works.
Physical science as his name say is purely physical in nature and therefore study only the physical aspect of our self.
When physical science will finally open up to our spiritual aspect then the chances that will understand how the whole system works will be possible.
That's just wishful thinking on your part. You still have to demonstrate that there are different aspects which are truly separate from the material one. The most parsimonious hypothesis is that they don't exist.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
