(November 14, 2022 at 1:12 am)Belacqua Wrote:(November 13, 2022 at 11:05 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: What are the particles that make a soul, and what are the particles that mediate interactions between those particles and the particles that make a body. The Standard Model is filling up fast.
Is software made of special particles? Or is more of a form or system which determines the operation of the material?
The software does not survive the death of the computer and then wanders around before it goes to some imaginary place as the soul is supposedly doing.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"