MysticKnight Wrote:I don't know what you mean by quantity isn't material. When there is two chairs, that is two material things existing....do you mean our ability to count is not material? I'm a little confused.
Another thing, how do you suppose kids learned to count and add? Wasn't it through practice and memory. When we have memory of dates, all this you are saying doesn't exist in the brain, only in the soul and is purely a process the soul goes through?
A chair is material. Two chairs are material. One thousand chairs are material. But "2" is not material; "1000" is not material. It functions as an adjective, of which most are relative terms, but "2" actually exists in reality. The example I gave in that first post was with an unbonded oxygen atom. There are "6" electrons in that outer shell. This "6" is very important and exists in reality. The "6" exists within the atom (material) and more specifically with the number of electrons in the outer shell, and while those are material, "6" is not. You cannot take "6" out of the outer shell. You possibly could take out an electron, but you can't take "6". The "6" cannot be touched. It is not material.
Kid's brains must be practiced at counting to make it quick. The soul here does not to all the work. The child receives the immaterial stimuli, quantity, regardless of training, but the brain has to be trained use it. The soul is not a substitute for the brain, and without a healthy brain the ability to count is hindered just like any physical process. A healthy kid with no training will learn to count on their own, but schools certainly hasten the process.
Memory is entirely biological. It is not in the soul. The soul understands immaterials and sends them back to the brain. The soul understands no physical stimuli, only immaterial stimuli.
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