If the the soul isn't the physical person, how do you explain amnesia?

Question

That dumb answer I got before DIDN'T EXPLAIN ANYTHING!!!!!!

If you die, how will you be aware and remember anything if you're brain dead? HUH??? Apparently saying you're really intangible is a brainless idea.

Answer 1

It baffles me why christians don't accept that the conscious mind is just chemical reactions and electrical impulses in your brain.

The analogy of someone driving a car is just silly.

That would suggest that creatures who don't have souls must have better brains as they can run on auto pilot and we can't.

The evidence against the soul is obvious, yet they refuse to see it.

Answer 2

I've been asking this for a while. Furthermore, the mind (which is essentially what others call the soul) is strongly affected by minute changes to the body such as a lack of vitamins, the presence of drugs, the menstrual cycle and various mental and physical diseases. Also consider the case of Phineus Gage, who in a bizzare railway accident had a steel rod blown through his brain. He survived, but his mood and personality changed so drastically that he became estranged from his friends and family. If the mind is so affected by the condition of the body, how can anyone expect that the soul could survive entirely independently of the body?

Answer 3

The conditioned soul is sheathed in two bodies. One is the gross body, made of earth, water, fire, air, and ether, and the other is the subtle body, composed of mind, intelligence, and false ego. The soul occupies the same subtle body throughout all the changes of gross bodies. Thus all his memories and conceptions from previous lives travel with him, (The soul) stored within his mind, from one body to the next. In strict accordance with nature's law of karma, the soul receives a gross body that exactly conforms to the subtle conceptions and desires stored in his mind. The brain is just a device which consciousness is manifested.
For example, if you watch a football game on TV and a power failure occurs, the game disappears from the screen. According to your logic, this is the evidence that the football game was produced by the TV. Actually, the machine simply transmitted the game that was going on independently of the TV. In the same way, consciousness is transmitted by the brain but not produced by it.

Answer 4

Hello first lets get that word down, in Gen. 2:7 we understand that God breathed into man the breath of life or [in Job 27:3 breath is called spirit] and HE "BECAME" a living soul, a soul is what we become NOT something that God pokes into you, its all of it, and NO its not a case of "if" you die its "WHEN" we are all living in a big open grave called earth, but Jesus Christ the second member of The Godhead [see Heb.13:8, Heb.1:5-9, John 1 for Jesus being God] gave each of us probation time, find out more free bible lessons www.amazingfacts.org talk to me also [e-mail] God bless

Answer 5

Considering that the brain (which would account for amnesia) is a part of the physical person, amnesia has nothing whatsoever to do with the soul which is a person's spirit.

Answer 6

Respected One,
This is indeed a very good question to be appreciated by all the philosophers... Let me explain that your understanding of soul of not being a physical person is perfectly right. The scriptures such as Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita describe soul at the subtle level and they deal with this topic in depth.

Amnesia is the mal-function of brain after the latter is damaged. So in one sense this is a function of physical element in our body. Right!!!

Now Krishna in Bhagavad-gita has mentioned mattah-smrtir-jnanam apohanam ca From Me comes Smrtir - rememberance, jnanam - knowledge and apohanam - forgetfulness. So Krishna being seated into our hearts as Supersoul keeps sanctioning and witnessing our activities. If we want to foget or remember something, it is He who sanctions our action and we forget that thing.

Now for Krishna to sanction any action of a living entity there should be karma - result of the actions accumulated with the living entity. If the karma of one does not allow him to think about some excellent idea, he will not be able to get guidance from within from Krishna. Isn't it.

Amnesia can therefore be caused by:
1. One's bad karma - which will allow brain to get damaged and the rememberance will not flow from Supersoul.

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Answer 7

the 'soul' IS the physical person.
The soul can die
(Ezekiel 18:4) Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.
You have to be alive to die.
And animals are souls.
(Genesis 1:20-21) And God went on to say: “Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens.” 21 And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good.



(Genesis 1:24-25) And God went on to say: “Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds, domestic animal and moving animal and wild beast of the earth according to its kind.” And it came to be so. 25 And God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind. And God got to see that [it was] good.

Amnesia [ forgetting] is just a breakdown of braincells.
As to what happens when we die.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.

Answer 8

Actually, a person is made up of a body, a soul, and a spirit.

The brain is just an organ of the body that can get sick.

The Christian belief is not that we will float around without a body. The Bible says that our bodies will be raised like Jesus' body was raised. Our new bodies will be like Jesus' glorious body. We won't get sick or die anymore.

1 Cor 15.12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

15Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

16For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

18Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.


1 Cor 15.35But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

36Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

37And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

38But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

39All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

40There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

42So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

43It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.


Philippians 3.20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.


2 Corinthians 5.1For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

3If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Answer 9

I know right? lol retards!!!