RE: Disproving The Soul
August 16, 2014 at 2:41 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2014 at 2:45 am by Mudhammam.)
(August 15, 2014 at 11:45 pm)Severan Wrote: This short amount of information is intended to disprove the existence of a soul and afterlife.
I will add more later on, as I am busy at the moment.
Anyways, I was reading up on neuroscience, consciousness, and anesthesia and found that anesthesia disproves the existence of a soul and afterlife.
For there to be an afterlife, consciousness cannot be based in a material world. Also known as a "soul".
However, anesthesia eliminates consciousness temporarily. How is it that something material can shut down something supposedly immaterial?
The answer is simple. Consciousness is based materially and an afterlife is not possible.
Have you ever been under anesthesia? What if someone put you under that state for eternity? It's exactly like death: absence of consciousness.
I also feel that further evidence is provided by the memory you have before life: NONE.
Leave a post below and I will hopefully respond.
I'll play devil's advocate; while the person is still alive, and as the soul can only cohere in a material existence--as it makes rational, and also therefore empirical, intuition possible, and nothing else beyond that limit unless another vehicle is presented for it, namely one in Space-time--then the material body is required. Only when the soul is granted another source or body can it experience, and since our knowledge is limited to the empirical world, the soul remains perfectly mysterious but metaphysically possible. It is the simple substance, ontologically distinct from your brain, that allows the billions of cells in your brain to form the idea that you call "you."
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza