(April 2, 2013 at 11:30 am)Tex Wrote:whateverist Wrote:I hadn't been thinking of James Brown but there certainly are better meanings to attach to "soul" than auxiliary immaterial brain supplement. This is such a reach and really so pointless. If that is all you can think to make of a 'soul' then why even bother?
I bother because many people deny the auxiliary immaterial brain supplement. You guys are like flat world-ers to me. Plus, there are other immaterial things to speak of, and I'd figure the atheist crowd, generally also being the more intelligent crowd, would feel more at home if I dealt with numbers before other immaterial stuff.
You might add that I am also a muggle as I do not believe in sorcerers or witches. This whole project of trying to 'prove' that a spiritual realm is necessary to explain our mental capacities is ludicrous. If there is any correlate to 'soul' I do not see why it needs to be enabled by something beyond the material, biological processes of our brains. There are intelligent things to say about 'soul' but this literal search for an extra-dimensional cog is really just masturbation on the part of the rational mind. Pointless.
