Consciousness

[Eilonnwy]

Explain to me consciousness. What on earth are the things I see and sense, if there is no soul.

The things that you see and sense are what's there in reality, essentially. Perceived through senses that are interpretted in the brain. So to me that question is silly, because what you see and sense usually is not what people refer to when they say you have a consciousness or a soul.

What they usually mean is you have something beyond the body that exists after death and/or also makes you self aware and causes you to feel and have morality.

My cat can see and sense things, but she's not self aware in the sense that human's are. Many would argue she has a soul and others would argue she doesn't.

Consciousness is a tricky question becuase you have to sort of define the word before you can have a meaningful conversation about it.

But at the end of the day, there is nothing scientifically substiating the idea that there is something more than the brain. The more we learn the more we can see how the brain not only sees and smells, but also control feelings through chemicals that we tend to attirubute to the soul.