RE: Arguments against Soul
January 27, 2020 at 12:46 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2020 at 12:49 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 27, 2020 at 12:29 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: It's very simple gae. We have a claim, not a working definition. The claim is that consciousness somehow continues after the death of the brain. A totally illogical and irrational claim.
We do not have a definition of how that phenomenon works. Sure, people throw around very vague words like "essence" and "energy" and "form," along with other non-specific nonsense. But there is no real definition of what a soul is supposed to be. Just vague attempts at trying to explain something that no one really understands. And that's my point, if no one really even understands it and we cannot even really explain it, there is no argument for soul. So there's no need to argue against it.
What something, in your estimation, are people trying to explain. The thing they don't understand?
What is the "it" you have in mind?
I can already see that the "it" is somehow tied to consciousness in your view. That's not necessarily the claim of soul - but it's certainly one of them. Is this the definition that you're objecting to?
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