how do you define self or what is your perception of "I"
is it brain ? when you think of your self do you picture a brain and some nerves???
do you picture your face. no when we say I want that . I did that ....
I love him/her it is not some cells we are talking about
nor it is some organs and blood
the body dies but the "I" , the "self" never dies cause its not consisted of the physical material
what o you think?
2006-10-13 17:37:20 · 9 answers · asked by Afshin A. 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what stop you of thinking that this body is just a tool for our soul, and that I is the soul
and the soul comunicate with us by brain
so the source of thoughts are not some cells but the sourse of aour emotions is the soul
2006-10-13 17:48:48 · update #1
I usually picture my "self " as thughts going on inside my head...not the physical form itself but the actuall thoughts..so if the thoughts cease so do i .
2006-10-13 17:40:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The self is the ongoing process of interconnected thoughts and memories that are maintained (at various levels and detail) by the body's neurological system. Memories may fade, but because the self is a process, even if there is no memory of an event, the self persists as an ongoing process from birth to death.
Faces change with age and with accidental or disease disfigurement. The face is not the self. Accomplishments are remembered through the above neurological processes. Love is also a strong biochemical reaction that helps connect human beings to one another in caring couples and communities.
When the body dies, the processes of the neurological system cease, and at that point, the self also ceases.
2006-10-13 17:42:34 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The source of your emotions is clearly not the soul. The soul is metaphysical. You can be stimulated in certain areas of your brain with wires and begin to cry or laugh. You can take drugs that completely alter your mood, personality, intelligence, whatever. You can have brain damage in your frontal lobe that completely eliminates your personality!
How much clearer can it be that chemical reactions are the source to emotion and thought?
You are just assuming that eternal "i" in your question. No, in fact, I know that there is no eternal soul. It makes no sense.
2006-10-13 18:42:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something which entered my body as i was born. From some other place. The shock of feeling for the first time, made me become a conscious person. If i ever left this body again, i would die. The essence of me would then go elsewhere, i don't know where.
Think of that saying about falling whilst dreaming - if you land before wakeing , you die. The shock which the dream was giving you to awake would have failed. Just an annalogy.
2006-10-13 17:54:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's defined by the energy of your body. It's not just brain. It's all of you. But once your body stops working, everything else usually does too. Those that don't stop working generally turn into ghosts for a time. But even ghosts don't last forever.
2006-10-13 18:09:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am defined by what i percieve
what is doing the percieving, i dont know much about, other than it is me, it might be the physical me, or it might not be.
how it got there, i dont know that either
when it begins, ends, or if it does begin or end, i dont know.
it seems that it percieves through my mind, though, so i suspect that after my brain dies it sort of goes to sleep.
Why it doesnt percieve through other minds as well, i dont know.
Why it is there, ............ i dont know.
i have thought much about these questions throughout my life, considered many sources for the answers, but still come to few conclusions, and i really am beginning to doubt that i ever will.
this is what i think
2006-10-13 17:49:48 · answer #6 · answered by kitty is ANGRY!™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you close your eyes its everything you feel and think it's your personality, emotions, likes, etc...... this is your self better known as our soul. Our most inner part of our being is our spirit this is where the Lord lives initially, through maturing He is able to branch out into our soul where we are able to express Him through our personality, emotions etc..
2006-10-13 17:45:22 · answer #7 · answered by ckrug 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that "I" is a part of my mind. My mind is the result of the processes within my brain.
I say "I" is a part of my mind, because I think all of us really have multiple personalities, and because a big part of the functioning of our brain is subconscious. In fact, a big part of the functioning of our brain is just auto-associative memory.
I believe that "I" and my mind die when my body dies.
2006-10-13 17:45:34 · answer #8 · answered by Jim L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because we are self aware does not mean there is a god. Perhaps it is our self-awareness that causes us to imagine a god, or imagine something more.
Current theories of evolution in humans indicate that this might be a mechanism linked to survival.
2006-10-13 17:42:58 · answer #9 · answered by trouthunter 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋