If free will and the soul exist outside the physical, why are they effected by drugs, brain trauma, and genes?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as free will or a soul. Every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.

To break it down, everything you think and feel, is simply the reactions of hormones, electrons and chemicals going off in your brain. Therefore when you add drugs, you change the chemicals, you get a different reaction. Its just a very very complex equation.

True Free Will, Just like True Randomness is impossible.



P.S. Don't listen to these people spouting the relegious or personal opinons, they are no different than the relegious people of old claiming the earth was flat or the sun revolves around us. If you want the true scientific answer to your question check out determinism. If you wanna think of the world in a touchy feely, Oh, that sounds like a nice way to explain it, then don't worry about it, you can make-up whatever you want.

Answer 2

Great question - obviously the thoughts we have are influenced by the physical state of the brain. That said; if the mind is entirely physical how do we explain the effect of an observer on quantum mechanical phenomena in a superpositional state? Is it possible that determinism is only half the story and that the other half is beyond perception within the limits of simplistic three dimensional perception. Even the simple addition of time as an extra dimension makes it obvious that determinism fails to explain -all- observable phenomena. I say we still have insufficient data to draw a conclusion.

Answer 3

The Intangible/Invisible ideas does exist... anybody who has had an OBE (Out of body journey) knows that the tips is cut loose the mind and under no circumstances an results of the mind because we are no longer interior the body and the actual mind would not come alongside...... I have had OBE's for over 50 years now... The Soul/Spirit, knowledge is living interior the tips now to not be at a loss for words with the mind it is actual The ideas works by ability of the mind even as we inhabit a actual body... The Brian desires the tips to exist while the tips does no longer go with the mind to exist.. after we die we only shed the actual body and bypass domicile The e book: The Afterlife Experiments : bounce ahead medical data of life After lack of life Gary E. R. Schwartz about the author Dr. Gary Schwartz is director of the Laboratory for Advances in knowledge and wellbeing (in the previous generic as Human capacity structures Laboratory) on the college of Arizona. he's presently a professor of psychology, drugs, neurology, psychiatry, and surgical procedure on the college of Arizona. he's a graduate of Harvard college, and has taught at both Harvard and Yale, conserving the positions of professor of psychiatry and psychology for practically 3 a lengthy time period. He has printed more desirable than four hundred academic papers.

Answer 4

Thats easy...Your soul is an invisible essence that is around the body but not attached to it. It is affected by and affects the physical as life experience takes place.

When the physical brain is damaged or otherwise negatively impacted the light of the soul cannot as readily shine through. The soul is the cause of good.

On the other hand people of small intellectual achievement such as those affected by retardation can radiate more love than an aircraft carrier full of bright people.

Answer 5

I don't know that the soul does "exist" outside the body (or some kind of body). This notion of mind-body dualism owes a great deal to Platonic philosophy and more recent Cartesian thought than taking relevant scriptures at their face value.

Answer 6

Because they get all in our brains and mess around with the chemistry.

Oh I just caught the outside the physical part. Whoever said that was trying to be deep.

Answer 7

Science has proven the non-physical can never be made from the physical. Meaning, you can't have a gob of goo, an explosion, and shazam - out comes humans who have love, empathy, justice, feelings, emotions, etc.

The Bible says the soul/spirit (which are independent) are binded by the flesh while here on earth.

Answer 8

They don't exist outside the physical---What is “a living soul”? Genesis 2:7 Dust and breath, that is what we are dust and breath. Please turn to Genesis 3:19 Dust you are and to dust you return. Let’s look at a controversial text. The book of Ecclesiastes chapter twelve and verse seven, (read it) dust to the ground, spirit to God who gave it. So one might ask what is the spirit if not what we commonly call a ghost? First we’ll turn to James it’s a little book right after Hebrews. We’ll read in chapter two verse twenty-six. This chapter is mostly talking about faith without deeds being dead, but here in verse twenty-six it states, “The body without the ‘spirit’ is dead.” Not much, we didn’t already know, but what is this spirit? The book of Job sheds some light on the fact in chapter 27 verse three; Job is talking to his friends about God. He states that as long as he has life in him the breath of God in his nostrils he will not…deny his integrity. It goes back to dust and breath again. So what does happen to a person when they die? Ezekiel 18:20 states that the soul that sins, it shall die. In first Timothy chapter six verses 15 and 16 Paul is talking to Timothy and says (read) God is the only one who is immortal. Let’s see if we can find out where the dead are. What is it like for those that have died? Does the Bible give us any indication? Ps 115:17 “The dead praise not the Lord neither any that go down into silence.” And again in Ecc 9:5, 6 & 10 “For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.” “Whatsoever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” God says the dead know not anything. In the gospels, John chapter 11, when it talks about Lazarus death, in verse eleven Jesus calls death sleep. How many of you, when you get a good nights sleep realize anything that goes on around you between the time you fall asleep and when you wake up? That is what it is like to be dead. Look up at the light. shut those off for one moment? Okay where did the light go? Where did it go? It doesn’t go anywhere. It takes two things to create light, the bulb and electricity. Without both things, there is no light. You can turn them back on now. When a person ceases to breathe the breath goes out of the body and the body; it goes where we bury it to await the resurrection.
Are we really sure that our loved ones are not in heaven now? Let’s close with reading a couple more texts. The first text is found in Acts 2 (read); Peter is talking to the crowd about Jesus resurrection. The part of the dialogue I want us to concentrate on begins in verse twenty-two and ends in the first part of verse 34. David, the King David, is dead and buried and has not ascended to heaven. When will we expect to see our loved ones again? First Thessalonians chapter four verses 15 though 18 answers this question for us. One minute a person is alive and what will seem to them as the next minute God will call them from their graves. And finally, Revelation chapter twenty one verses one through five, we go to heaven together with our loved ones when Christ comes again and there will be no more death or crying. Won’t that be a glorious day? I can hardly wait. Won’t you wait with me today?

Answer 9

It is an incomplete question- the rest of the question should say
..inside the physical?"
Which would answer your own question.

Answer 10

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