2007-03-11 17:13:57 · 20 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The concept of the soul is as old as the human race. Read Aristotle's De Anima, St. Augustine's "Creation of the Man's Soul" and Genesis for a western philosophy perspective. But you could argue that everything is the concept of man, unless you have faith.
I find it absurd that people on here think it is a figment of the mind. If a tree falls in the forest does it make any noise if no one is there to hear it?
If my brain gets scrambled with a lobotomy whisk, does that mean his soul seeped out some how and he no longer has a soul or the ability to animate?
2007-03-11 17:30:36 · answer #1 · answered by O 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul
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Roger Penrose expounds this position in The Emperor's New Mind[9]. He posits that the mind is in fact not like a computer as generally understood, but rather a quantum computer, that can do things impossible on a classical computer, such as decide the halting problem. Some have located the soul in this possible difference between the mind and a classical computer.
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2007-03-12 00:32:00 · answer #2 · answered by Architect 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless you believe in magical or mythical beings, it must be.
It is either a fabrication of the human psyche, or it is something that only humans can define.
As a fabrication, well there would be nothing to invent.
As a discovery, well in this case, it just is. It's like asking if copper is a human invention, it wasn't invented, just discovered.
I personally believe it just is, in the same way as solar light contains heat, or water freezes.
GreenMan
2007-03-12 00:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by GreenMan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good start, the concept of religion in general is a human invention. But to your point, the concept of a soul can be invalidated by looking at brain injury victims. If you think that a brain injury victim will think normally when in heaven, then they should also think normally regardless of cranial injury.
2007-03-12 00:17:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, if you mean it as opposed to a bible teaching. The word "nephesh" that translates (in the KJV) as "soul" is also translated as "life" and "creature" (Genesis 1:20-21, referring to animals!). Ezekiel 18:4 says that "the soul (nephesh) that is sinning will DIE" If the commonly understood meaning of a soul is something immortal that goes to either heaven or hell for eternity then how can it die, as Ezekiel indicates? Those wacky KJV tanslators! Too bad they only had three late- century manuscripts to go on, not to mention the limited and archaic form of English they spoke back then!
2007-03-12 00:24:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anomaly 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is a human invention, everything is a concept of the absolute mind.
2007-03-12 00:18:00 · answer #6 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, primitive people who did not understand the concept of the mind the concept of the soul was used to explain the non-physical person.
2007-03-12 00:23:00 · answer #7 · answered by October 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No I believe in souls,no soul no human heart.
2007-03-12 00:35:03 · answer #8 · answered by zabist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original usage of the term just meant 'mental aspect' of the person. The modern religious conception is usually just an incoherent mess with no clear meaning at all.
2007-03-12 00:22:04 · answer #9 · answered by neil s 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Of course it is. If you were born in the middle of the jungle and never told anything would you still instinctively come to the conclusion of a "soul"?
2007-03-12 00:19:23 · answer #10 · answered by Ordin 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋