How does the soul have anything to do with your thoughts?

Question

Isn't it completely handled by the brain? If not, what part does the soul handle?

Answer 1

This is a WONDERFUL question, and I am so glad you asked. There is current medical research being conducted on this very topic! A good place to start would be http://scholar.google.com You can pull down all kinds of credible articles, though some require subscription.

That said, let me summarize by way of an analogy:

Consider your brain to be like a television. All manner of switches, wires, capacitors, etc. Absent a signal from an outside source, you have a fancy piece of hardware. You can turn it on, and you will get a blank screen, or perhaps a screen full of static. Send it a signal, and it's another matter all together. This is a limited, admittedly poor analogy, but I hope it helps. You might consider the brain as an information processing and control center which relays data about the world to the mind, and encodes and sends data from the mind to the body to carry out the wishes of the mind.

Here's an article which seems to indicate a separation between mind and brain:
http://img.tapuz.co.il/forums/5823093.pdf

Tom

Answer 2

Your "soul" is simply your subconscious, which is an accumulation of memories. Since 95% of what we do is due to memories, it has a lot of control over your brain.

Spend some time pondering on where thoughts that run through your head come from. Ask yourself whether it was something you were taught, learned yourself, or just a completely new thought of your own. Once you do this for awhile, you'll easily see the relationship between soul/brain.

Answer 3

Thoughts do originate from your brain, body , and soul. This triumvirate is dependant on the soul for all of it's original experiential nature. Our soul literally influences all the feeling, and past feeling that we share to formulate our thought pattern and emotional motivation. This is not a medical explanation, more over a philisophical one. However, can anyone deny that medical science is lacking a definition for soul. Clinically there isn't a soul, but I bet if you ask nurses and doctors to surmise what happens to a person when they pass on they would have to admit that something does transubstantiate upon death. Something that is unexplainable ,physiologically speaking, occurs at passing. I believe the soul is our natural "fingerprint". A summation of our memory, feeling, and experience all wrapped up in our subconcious mind.