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When a brain is injured but the person survives, the area of the brain and the extent of the injury dictate what changes occur.
Does this prove that thinking is simply a biological process and that the concept of "soul" is unnecessary?
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2007-02-24 01:40:53 · 10 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For you and I and other scientifically inclined minds, yes. Others will argue that your soul becomes trapped in your body. I guess there would be some discord between what you want to think and what you do think though. Kind of like when people have spinal cord injuries and their bodies don't do what they want them to do.
2007-02-24 01:44:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We didn't need the brain injury to know that thinking is biological. The concept of the "soul" on the other, is not "necessary" or not! It defines a different aspect of the world. The biological proof of the thinking can not be taken as proof against the "soul". In religion the "body" plays a double role. First it is soul's medium to this world. Secondly is the proof that there are physical rules in this world, something that boosts the impact and the meaning of a "miracle". The "miracles" prove that there are physical laws and situations, that they can be surpassed in order to prove that there is an "Intelligence" behind the world: God.
Let us give an example (question). If your TV stops functioning, does this mean that the broadcasting company stopped too? That is the relationship between soul and body.
2007-02-24 02:04:19 · answer #2 · answered by filip 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From a Buddhist perspective, it proves that the mind, in THIS body is interdependent upon the function of the brain for the ability to apprehend things correctly with the five senses, however the mind still functions on it's own if the brain dies.
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2007-02-24 01:48:07 · answer #3 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Does the fact that bread fails without salt prove that bread is purely a salt product? No more than if you removed the flour and didn't end up with bread proves that bread is just flour.
2007-02-24 01:47:16 · answer #4 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is absolutely a biological process.
2007-02-24 01:43:10 · answer #5 · answered by CC 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your soul has nothing to do with your mind. It is your spirit or "life force" that makes you a human being. It is the one thing that differentiates us from the animals. People do not "think" themselves into faith. It comes from within.
2007-02-24 01:44:59 · answer #6 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No,...the brain is like a radio ... if you drop the radio, the reception becomes fautly, but the radio wave is the same....
Peace & Love
2007-02-24 01:45:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
That is a common mis-assumption using a 'short-path' logic system.
2007-02-24 01:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ABSOLUTELY. HOWEVER, THESE CHRISTIANS ARE SO RETARDED, THEY WILL NEVER ACCEPT IT!!!
For, there HAS to be a SOUL, to go to heaven, RIGHT?
2007-02-24 01:47:00 · answer #9 · answered by The Wizard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this, and other things, yes.
2007-02-24 01:43:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋