(June 29, 2014 at 6:20 am)Purplundy Wrote:(June 29, 2014 at 5:26 am)Irrational Wrote: Why should they constitute some soul that exists forever? They are easily explicable in terms of monism. Why add extra unnecessary features/entities?I didn't add anything.
When a friend says your name, I'd assume that they think about more than your organs. When you give to a charity, I wouldn't guess that you think about the electrical charges in the neural systems of the less fortunate.
I, and others, just take what makes one an intrinsically valuable person and give it a name.
When a friend says my name, he is addressing my self as an individual and not focusing their attention on what I'm made of. But that does not mean that my self, scientifically speaking, is anything beyond my brain and my body.
So how I think does not mean I must have a soul. We are generally conditioned to see people as more than just objects because that's what's been helping us as human beings to function in life with each other.
