The Soul

[houseofcantor]

Multicellular animals like ourselves are fricking amazing. All those individual cells submerging their interests into that of the collective. Even more mind boggling is to think of how each new zygote assembles a complete creature, with cells of just the right kind in each location for each purpose.

Therefore ... nothing. It is and remains amazing but we can no more attribute it to a genie than we can create a functional, multicellular creature from scratch. We're just not that smart yet. Invoking magic to 'explain' the miraculous is equally lame.

Buncha chaos theory, geometry, and emergence for me...

There's some evidence for neurogenesis and perhaps more for neuroplasticity which makes "the renewable you" essentially true.

Thanks for that. I had better stop basing my questions on "facts" I learned from QI.

There isn't much of a problem of where you get your "facts" from as long as you're willing to revise what you consider "factual" with new evidence. I mean, ya gotta start somewhere.