If we were to assume that all humans have an immortal soul that departs the body at death, what would happen if someone who had been cryogenically frozen at death was brought back to life at a later time? Would the soul return to them or remain where it was?
2006-09-12 08:33:56 · 13 answers · asked by Clive B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
No, the soul stays withing until you actualy die.
2006-09-12 08:35:58 · answer #1 · answered by xavier_del_rio 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a big assumption, followed by a leap of imagination.
There is no evidence that there is an immortal soul, or indeed any soul apart from the body. Certainly such a thing would be beyond the current theories of science. There is no evidence that someone who has died and been frozen could ever be brought back to life.
It's therefore impossible to do other than make wild speculations on the subject.
My view such as it is, is that there is no immortal soul. Nothing leaves the body. Resuscitation of a long dead corpse is unlikely to ever be successful, but if it were, the mental organisation which makes the person who and what they are would also have to be resuscitated, otherwise they would just be a brain damaged body. As the soul didn't go anywhere, it couldn't return.
It's more like(though of course more complicated than) a candle. When it goes out the light doesn't go anywhere. If it is re-lit, the light hasn't come back from anywhere.
2006-09-12 13:06:47 · answer #2 · answered by hi_patia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if you believe that there is such a thing as a soul, no one seriously claims to have measured or observed one. So, questions about souls don't really belong in the science column, do they? This would be a good question to ask in the religion area.
ps people who are cryogenically frozen are dead. There has never been one single person who was cryogenically frozen brought back to life. So, if they had souls the souls have already gone wherever souls go when the person dies.
2006-09-12 16:41:13 · answer #3 · answered by matt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, even if humans perfected this technology I don't think that a body could be kept frozen forever. Eventually something would happen to stop the body from being suspended (like the end of the universe) and the soul of the body would then be free to exit the body.
2006-09-12 08:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by bruinfan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Current scientific research suggests that the soul belongs to the cryobrittle group of pseudo-organs. This means that upon freezing it immediately splinters into myriad particles scattered randomly in space up to 1.36 astromical units distant , the composition being much like some of the more common forms of intergalactic stardust ( not the Andromedan variety, which is widely thought to contain rock-like as well as soul-like constituents ). Refocusing these specks into the body at the time of reawakening would not be possible due to entropic constraints.
2006-09-12 10:52:56 · answer #5 · answered by bob s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that successful cryogenics could occur, the soul would be trapped in the body much as it is when a patient is in a coma, neither living nor dying.
2006-09-12 08:41:29 · answer #6 · answered by TweetyBird 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off... does the soul exist?
Well you may believe it (as do I) but asking a question like this when you can not quantify or even define it is absurd.
However assume it exists and that you are never dead... then it would stay... if you died... it would stand to reason that either it comes back (unlikely) or that the body is unrevivable (most likely).
2006-09-12 08:42:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the soul does not leave the body until you are dead then you can assume that the soul would remain in the body while it is frozen.
2006-09-12 08:41:58 · answer #8 · answered by Bunnygirl24 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There was a time when religion taught that the soul was located in the pineal gland.
The point about cryogenics is that you freeze people while they are still alive so I dont see that your supposition arises.
2006-09-12 08:40:40 · answer #9 · answered by Argonautical 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
if that is the case, the soul will rest in a different dimension, until it is called again when the physical body is revived to life.
2006-09-12 08:38:10 · answer #10 · answered by aLoN 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋