(May 10, 2015 at 6:18 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: What else would it mean? It's just putting it in scientific terms.
I won't deny the possibility that we are more complex than that, that our mind is a product of something more fundamental that we haven't discovered yet. I don't see why we should assume that, though. I think the default assumption should be that our 'souls' is information.
But wouldn't that mean that fetuses don't have them, or have little of them? Is there some kind of quantity measurement? That would also mean that animals and computers have souls
Trying to define a soul is like chasing the wind. The concept just doesn't mean anything, no matter how hard we try to pin it down
Maybe it's because it comes from a time when the understanding of biology was very limited and life was a great mystery, where it used to be some sort of explanation for consciousness and/or memory
it's barely relatable as anything more than a metaphor in this age, though
