(September 25, 2019 at 7:59 am)Belaqua Wrote:(September 25, 2019 at 7:33 am)Jehanne Wrote: The soul and mind must be the exact same thing, because, there is no alternative.
Why isn't there an alternative?
I'm not trying to be difficult. I honestly don't see what argument you have for why that portion of the person called a soul has to be identical and coterminous with mind.
Is it that you are unwilling to consider that there may be some portion of the person which is neither material nor, strictly speaking, mind?
Or are you merely defining soul in such a way that your definition is the same as mind?
In the classical definition of soul that I described earlier, mind would be a portion of soul. Since soul is the form of the body (including all the functions, interactions, etc.) then mind is included among those interactions. But so would be non-mind functions, such as what your liver does. Also whatever information is stored unconsciously in your DNA that caused your toes to be in the shape they are. These things are soul but not mind, in that older view.
It comes down to if you are proposing anything beyond the Standard Model (quarks, electrons, etc.); if you are not, then, as far as I am concerned, this is a discussion about semantics and reductionism.