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    #14245742 - 04/06/11 01:10 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

DO you think soul exists, or do you think it is just another way of saying inner self or something of the like?



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Re: Soul [Re: skatealex2]
    #14245754 - 04/06/11 01:15 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

i dont believe in souls.

our consciousness (what people think is a soul) is produced by the environment in our body. its a mutualistic relationship between the physical aspect of you, and the "soul" aspect of you.

your body (under the right conditions) makes "you". "you" make the decisions that lead to your body receiving nutrients, water, air, and everything else you need to live. as a result the conditions in your brain are just right to keep "you" going.

without one, the other would cease to exist.

there isnt some ethereal being possessing my body that makes it think. my body thinks because its an efficient way to make decisions that keep the cells alive and in a suitable environment.


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Re: Soul [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
    #14245772 - 04/06/11 01:21 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Yea I don't think there's such thing as a soul...I don't think every single person is somehow special. You know?
The ego thinks it's a soul...
I don't feel like our lives were given some special meaning, or that "I" will somehow live on after my body dies. I know that "I" am only here to keep my physical body going. "I" have a lot of control, but once my body dies, "I" am going with it.


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Re: Soul [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
    #14245775 - 04/06/11 01:22 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I think the soul is an ancestral thing passed onto
you through dna from your parents.

The souls we have our an amalgamation of all the
souls before me, and each soul has to work harder
then the last two souls that combined to make it, in
order to achieve fulfillment in the present moment.

This is why in today's society it's so easy for people
to develop ennui and just... opt out, take the easy road.

I believe in soul.

soul is not intellect, nor is it consciousness, imo.
soul is purer than both, for intellect/logic can be flawed,
and consciousness is a collective.

but I probably really have no idea what I'm talking about.


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Re: Soul [Re: skatealex2]
    #14245777 - 04/06/11 01:22 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I don't know, if you have free will then what makes the decision?  The material matter that is governed by physical laws?  Does quantum mechanics come into play in a brain making a decision?  If it does then are decisions made completely randomly, and thus not by freewill?  If quantum mechanics plays a role in your decision making (or you assert it does not), but you assert that decision making is not done by complete chance, and not by predetermined physics of this universe, then I assert you have a soul.  It either has something to do with quantum mechanics (and is perhaps it is connected to the universe tangibly this way), or it does not, but either way I believe on some level the idea of humans having free will points to them also having a soul.  There are better, longer discussions on the subject, from all of them it appears that at least we can agree on the fact that human beings are very interesting things.

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Re: Soul [Re: Nymphaea]
    #14245779 - 04/06/11 01:23 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Nice thoughts.


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Re: Soul [Re: Nymphaea]
    #14245802 - 04/06/11 01:32 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Nymphaea said:
I don't know, if you have free will then what makes the decision?  The material matter that is governed by physical laws?  Does quantum mechanics come into play in a brain making a decision?  If it does then are decisions made completely randomly, and thus not by freewill?  If quantum mechanics plays a role in your decision making (or you assert it does not), but you assert that decision making is not done by complete chance, and not by predetermined physics of this universe, then I assert you have a soul.  It either has something to do with quantum mechanics (and is perhaps it is connected to the universe tangibly this way), or it does not, but either way I believe on some level the idea of humans having free will points to them also having a soul.  There are better, longer discussions on the subject, from all of them it appears that at least we can agree on the fact that human beings are very interesting things.

:potleaf:




I don't think free will = soul. I mean, honestly people are individuals, and people are different, and people can make choices, because we have brains. There are things our body does that we have no control over, like, how about the most basic function, breathing. We don't have control over a lot of the functions of our bodies. Choice is representative of 'you', but all 'you' are is a product of your experiences. The only reason 'you' exist is to keep your body alive. I think the idea of the soul came from people being terrified of death. Nobody wants to die, and a soul is an easy way to calm the fears of dying.


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Re: Soul [Re: Anthony917] * 1
    #14245808 - 04/06/11 01:35 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I thought soul just meant you could sing real good.

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Re: Soul [Re: Todcasil]
    #14245816 - 04/06/11 01:40 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

With bodies bound to the physical,
And bound to the sway of the emotional,
We are equally beings intellectual,
As we are fully spiritual.

My thoughts on the matter. The physical and intellectual states of being are the most transient, while the emotional and especially the spiritual hardly ever change.

I was once told that my beliefs are very similar to what the Hopi tribe believes by a woman who did her dissertation studying the impact of their spiritual beliefs on their culture and overall mental health.


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Re: Soul [Re: Synesthetic]
    #14245820 - 04/06/11 01:42 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

We have souls, the fact that you feel emotions should be proof enough, our souls are such a incredible part of what we are its mind boggling if you ask me.


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Re: Soul [Re: Anthony917]
    #14245832 - 04/06/11 01:47 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Nymphaea said:
I don't know, if you have free will then what makes the decision?  The material matter that is governed by physical laws?  Does quantum mechanics come into play in a brain making a decision?  If it does then are decisions made completely randomly, and thus not by freewill?  If quantum mechanics plays a role in your decision making (or you assert it does not), but you assert that decision making is not done by complete chance, and not by predetermined physics of this universe, then I assert you have a soul.  It either has something to do with quantum mechanics (and is perhaps it is connected to the universe tangibly this way), or it does not, but either way I believe on some level the idea of humans having free will points to them also having a soul.  There are better, longer discussions on the subject, from all of them it appears that at least we can agree on the fact that human beings are very interesting things.

:potleaf:




I don't think free will = soul. I mean, honestly people are individuals, and people are different, and people can make choices, because we have brains. There are things our body does that we have no control over, like, how about the most basic function, breathing. We don't have control over a lot of the functions of our bodies. Choice is representative of 'you', but all 'you' are is a product of your experiences. The only reason 'you' exist is to keep your body alive. I think the idea of the soul came from people being terrified of death. Nobody wants to die, and a soul is an easy way to calm the fears of dying.




If what you are saying is true then I would say we wouldn't have free will in that situation, if we are completely the product of the physical laws that govern our brains then we are not actually making decisions although it appears to us we are.  If all I am is a product of my experiences and nothing else then I am a soulless organic robot who imagines a psyche making decisions that are actually completely determined by an organic computer inside the robot.  We have no more AI then a computer, we are just made for a different purpose - to reproduce and sustain the existence of our kind.


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Re: Soul [Re: Spiralout112]
    #14245835 - 04/06/11 01:48 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Spiralout112 said:
We have souls, the fact that you feel emotions should be proof enough, our souls are such a incredible part of what we are its mind boggling if you ask me.




emotions are caused my neurotransmitters....

which is why taking hallucinogens (and altering the amount of neurotransmitters released) makes you feel emotions you wouldnt normally feel.


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Re: Soul [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
    #14245842 - 04/06/11 01:50 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I believe we have souls but it's not what we think. Death is going to be the ultimate twist ending watch.


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Re: Soul [Re: Nymphaea]
    #14245844 - 04/06/11 01:51 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Nymphaea said:
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Nymphaea said:
I don't know, if you have free will then what makes the decision?  The material matter that is governed by physical laws?  Does quantum mechanics come into play in a brain making a decision?  If it does then are decisions made completely randomly, and thus not by freewill?  If quantum mechanics plays a role in your decision making (or you assert it does not), but you assert that decision making is not done by complete chance, and not by predetermined physics of this universe, then I assert you have a soul.  It either has something to do with quantum mechanics (and is perhaps it is connected to the universe tangibly this way), or it does not, but either way I believe on some level the idea of humans having free will points to them also having a soul.  There are better, longer discussions on the subject, from all of them it appears that at least we can agree on the fact that human beings are very interesting things.

:potleaf:




I don't think free will = soul. I mean, honestly people are individuals, and people are different, and people can make choices, because we have brains. There are things our body does that we have no control over, like, how about the most basic function, breathing. We don't have control over a lot of the functions of our bodies. Choice is representative of 'you', but all 'you' are is a product of your experiences. The only reason 'you' exist is to keep your body alive. I think the idea of the soul came from people being terrified of death. Nobody wants to die, and a soul is an easy way to calm the fears of dying.




If what you are saying is true then I would say we wouldn't have free will in that situation, if we are completely the product of the physical laws that govern our brains then we are not actually making decisions although it appears to us we are.  If all I am is a product of my experiences and nothing else then I am a soulless organic robot who imagines a psyche making decisions that are actually completely determined by an organic computer inside the robot.  We have no more AI then a computer, we are just made for a different purpose - to reproduce and sustain the existence of our kind.




Pierre-Simon Laplace once said "Tell me the position and motion of every particle in the universe, and i will tell you the future"

(not an exact quote, but that the jist of what he said)


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Re: Soul [Re: Spiralout112]
    #14245846 - 04/06/11 01:51 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

I don't think emotions are proof of souls,
although I do find that being emotionally charged
does make me feel more spiritual, just as being
emotionally calm (meditative) makes me feel more
spiritual.  This leads me to think that spirituality
exists beyond emotion, with or without it.

The soul is a collection of things that make us living.
Some animals are not shown to feel emotions, does
that mean they have no soul?  No, I'd rather think that
a soul is the embodiment of our "isness" (:lol:), and all
living things have a soul.

I also like to think that there is a kind of "all-soul" which is
similar to collective consciousness, kind of a collective
soul, that all the souls of living things are a part of.

But don't take my word for it.


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Re: Soul [Re: Spiralout112]
    #14245849 - 04/06/11 01:52 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Spiralout112 said:
We have souls, the fact that you feel emotions should be proof enough, our souls are such a incredible part of what we are its mind boggling if you ask me.




the fact that you feel emotions could just be proof you have a brain

though you could argue that maybe it's not changes in the brain that cause emotion, but rather it's emotion that cause changes in the brain


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Re: Soul [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
    #14245854 - 04/06/11 01:53 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Spiralout112 said:
We have souls, the fact that you feel emotions should be proof enough, our souls are such a incredible part of what we are its mind boggling if you ask me.




emotions are caused my neurotransmitters....

which is why taking hallucinogens (and altering the amount of neurotransmitters released) makes you feel emotions you wouldnt normally feel.




but you can also change your emotions through your thoughts alone


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Re: Soul [Re: bigmike7104]
    #14245856 - 04/06/11 01:53 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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bigmike7104 said:
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Spiralout112 said:
We have souls, the fact that you feel emotions should be proof enough, our souls are such a incredible part of what we are its mind boggling if you ask me.




the fact that you feel emotions could just be proof you have a brain

though you could argue that maybe it's not changes in the brain that cause emotion, but rather it's emotion that cause changes in the brain




I would argue that they exist in a synergistic way,
we feel happy so we release dopamine/we release
dopamine so we feel happy.

Where is the line?  I don't see one.


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Re: Soul [Re: bigmike7104]
    #14245860 - 04/06/11 01:55 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

yea it seems to go both ways


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Re: Soul [Re: bigmike7104]
    #14245861 - 04/06/11 01:55 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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bigmike7104 said:
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SamuelLJackson said:
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Spiralout112 said:
We have souls, the fact that you feel emotions should be proof enough, our souls are such a incredible part of what we are its mind boggling if you ask me.




emotions are caused my neurotransmitters....

which is why taking hallucinogens (and altering the amount of neurotransmitters released) makes you feel emotions you wouldnt normally feel.




but you can also change your emotions through your thoughts alone




Thats because thought is a precursor to action, and
releasing chemicals in your brain is a physical action...

One does not begat the other... It's kind of a chicken
and egg deal.

:egg:


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