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Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by NateEag on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:32AM (#24408757)
Human bodies being made from matter does not imply that a hypothetical soul must also be made of physical matter.

It may not be scientific to propose that souls exist independent of matter (it seems a hard hypothesis to confirm or deny experimentally), but an idea does not need to be experimentally testable to be possible.

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Re:At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to p... by komali2 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:01PM (#24410949)
It doesn't even need to be that there are "souls," we just need to find a way to explain what Thought is. Saying it's the lights on an MRI aren't good enough - all the MRI tells us is that blood goes to certain parts of the brain during certain thoughts. Just like a radar gun displaying 50MPH isn't the car actually going 50MPH, so too do we need a way to explain what a Thought or Mind actually is.

So far this hasn't happened. If it had, it would be breaking news, because consciousness would be "solved."

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