(June 9, 2011 at 4:26 am)tackattack Wrote: 1) A lot of people feel that the soul isn't just an abstract concept, Christians aren't alone in this. What excatly is known as completely physical?
2) Support your materialist view of the mind-brain concept if you can with definition and support please.
I define the soul as an entity with properties that are separate from the physical structure.
Here is a list of functions of the brain known to be purely physical-
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subject...ture.shtml
Many of these things have been described as part of the soul, but could easily be altered by changing brain structure such as happened to Phineas Gage-
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/200...neas-gage/
I have yet to hear any attribute of the psyche that could not be explained away by the physical process of the brain. Our memories, emotions, behavior, judgement, personality and so on, are all attributes given to the soul we now know are dependent on the physical structure of the brain.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
