how about a battery .. when it recharged .. does its weight increase ..?
my point is : I do not believe that our soul has any weight ..
2006-08-19 01:12:11 · 7 answers · asked by u&me 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have heard that when a person dies their weight drops a minute amount. Is it the soul leaving the person ? I do believe we have a soul and that maybe possible. A dead person has a different look than a live person even when it just happened. It may also be a loss because of the body losing air, as in the lungs no longer expanding.
2006-08-19 01:31:39 · answer #1 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What exactly do you think a soul is? What properties does it have? What part of 'you' resides in the soul?
If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.
How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain. We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage - Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.
So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.
2006-08-19 01:18:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm..i've heard this before. But maybe its just air that exits the body or maybe some hundreds of cell dies since the blood stop circulating.This is just my opinion though,not scientific research ;p
I do not believe our soul has any weight too.
2006-08-19 01:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have heard that the dead body weighs more than the same body when it was alive.
So do you beleive, " soul is a matter that controlls weight???
2006-08-19 01:18:56 · answer #4 · answered by senthil r 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've just read where it's a 1/4 ounce you lose when death occurs. This happens to everyone!
2006-08-19 01:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fine!
beleave what you will.
For all I care beleave that 2+2=5 so!
2006-08-19 05:50:59 · answer #6 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what time is it in your country lol. oh idk about how much my soul weighs, but my body weighs 120 :)
2006-08-19 01:17:32 · answer #7 · answered by Nikki 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋