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The brain cannot discern its own functioning. (For example, try to watch your brain decide when to inhale & exhale.)
However, humans perceive themselves behaving, as if from an external self.
Neurologists have hypothesized this perceiving self ("soul") as a fictional creation of the brain itself, and it has been shown to disappear when the brain is damaged and people no longer see themselves AS themselves.
If evidence continues to build for such a hypothesis, thereby explaining via natural phenomena why we perceive our "self" as separate from the body, what impact would this have on the religious discourses on the "soul?"
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2007-09-19
04:46:13
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NHBaritone
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