"Human soul is a real entity." Discuss this statement with examples and elaboration,thanks!?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Legends and artifacts dating back thousands of years have ignited man's imagination for decades to centuries with theories of ancient astronauts and alien beings from other planets. Sightings of "UFOs" or "unidentified flying objects" of varying sizes, shapes and other characteristics have been recorded around the world for hundreds of years, possibly thousands. In popular TV shows, it is claimed that "sky people" are purportedly recorded as having brought advanced culture to the hominids who have lived on this planet. According to these legends, supposedly, this "first contact" had occurred previously, following cataclysm. Some stories relate this civilizing event to have happened several times during Earth's history. Geological, paleontological, anthropological and archaeological data reveal that there have indeed been many cataclysms on this earth, several on a global level, with climate change and mass extinction. The tales allegedly recount that after such a catastrophe, many surviving humans were reduced to the Stone Age but that more advanced humanoids descended from spacecraft and reestablished civilization. Are these claims true? Were these "sky people" aliens? Have there been "aliens" among us all along? Or is it all just an illusion?

Answer 3

Human souls take the iteration of attributes to state some like frame of the subject or something like an array of attributes that are human. For instance, a computer software has arrays that store logic and data.

Answer 4

To speak by way of analogy but not meant truly every 'human soul' is a programmed consciousness embedded into individual human minds just as working software is programmed and stored in computer memories. Again the soul programme consists of two branches,namely,an autonomous one regulating all internal organ as well as all biological functions and a second one containing all voluntary user programmes closely relating to individual intellect and intelligence. While the autonomous is entirely self programmed according to chronologically maintained bodily functions and absolutely rational in itself the voluntary is laden with all "desire" oriented programmes kept at the disposal of individual 'choice'. Indeed all inquiries leading to scientific and spiritual pursuits stem from these choiced programmes.So every "Human Soul is a real Entity" which is rational in part as relating to autonomous programmes but highly indeterministic as relating to user choiced ones. However human bodies appear as instruments which are chronologically programmed into which human souls as real entities are embedded and hence identify themselves and suffer with the bodily instrumental contraptions. It is here that all scriptures implore to make proper identification and exercise choice because every human soul as a real entity belongs to an eternal and all encompassing Soul Reality which is beyond all Space-time bounded and subtle mind generated individual programmes. Just as the expansion of individual terms of Binomial Theorem can be proved by the method of rational induction so also the individual human souls as expanded into relativistic space -time programmes can traced integrally to an universal conscious mind programmer which in itself is only a sub-set and dependent on universal consciousness which, again in its purest form is defined as the Ultimate Reality or The Brahman in hindu philosophy.

Answer 5

Maybe...

Because...

If there's no separation between "brain" and "mind" (or soul, if you will)...

Then what "made the decision" to "make the decision" to carry out an "act of willpower...?"

Because if your "brain" made the decision...then it would've had to "make a decision to make a decision to make a decision to make a decision ad infinitum, if you logically try to trace backwards how the whole "decision movement" began...

So to me...that "argument" kind of proves that our "mind/soul" is a "separate" entity from our brain...in other words...

Our "soul" kind of "floats" just an angstrom or two above our brains...and that "electrical soul field" is the "thing" that "decides" to "act..."

And it commands our physical "brain" to "make the decision and carry it out...

Which is sort of a symbiotic dual relationship...the brain generates the "electricity" to sustain the "soul," but the "soul" commands the brain to "action..."

But I still believe that the "soul" only exists as long as the "brain" does...

I do not believe that the "electrical soul field" lives on when it becomes separated from the brain...i.e...when we die...

The two are mutually reliant upon one another...

Answer 6

The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the self-aware essence unique to a particular living being. In these traditions the soul is thought to incorporate the inner essence of each living being, and to be the true basis for sapience. It is believed in many cultures and religions that the soul is the unification of one's sense of identity. Souls are usually considered to be immortal and to exist prior to incarnation.

The concept of the soul has strong links with notions of an afterlife, but opinions may vary wildly, even within a given religion, as to what may happen to the soul after the death of the body. Many within these religions and philosophies see the soul as immaterial, while others consider it to possibly have a material component, and some have even tried to establish the weight of the soul.

The Ancient Greeks used the same word for 'alive' as for 'ensouled'. So the earliest surviving western philosophical view might suggest that the terms soul and aliveness, were synonymous - perhaps not that having life, universally presupposed the possession of a soul as in Buddhism, but that full "aliveness" and the soul were conceptually linked.

Francis M. Cornford quotes Pindar in saying that the soul sleeps whilst the limbs are active, but when man is sleeping, the soul is active and reveals in many a dream "an award of joy or sorrow drawing near".

Erwin Rohde writes that the early pre-Pythagorean belief was that the soul had no life when it departed from the body, and retired into Hades with no hope of returning to a body.

Bahá'í beliefs

The Bahá'í Faith affirm that "the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp, and whose mystery no mind, however acute, can ever hope to unravel. "

Buddhism

There are scholars, such as Shirō Matsumoto, who have noted a curious development in Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, stemming from the Cittamatra and Vijnanavada schools in India: although this school of thought denies the permanent personal selfhood, it affirms concepts such as Buddha-nature, Tathagatagarbha, Rigpa, or "original nature". Matsumoto argues that these concepts constitute a non- or trans-personal self, and almost equate in meaning to the Hindu concept of Atman.

Gnosticism: Valentinus

Valentinus of Valentinius (circa 100 - circa 153) proposed a version of spiritual psychology that accorded with numerous other "perennial wisdom" doctrines. He conceived the human being as a triple entity, consisting of body (soma, hyle), soul (psyche) and spirit (pneuma).

Hindu beliefs

In Hinduism, the Sanskrit words most closely corresponding to soul are "Jiva/Atma", meaning the individual soul or personality, and "Atman", which can also mean soul.

Jain beliefs

According to Jainism, Soul (jiva) exists as a reality, having a separate existence from the body that houses it. Every living being – be it a human or a plant or a bacterium – has a soul and has a capacity to experience pain and pleasure. The soul (Jiva) is differentiated from non-soul or non-living reality (ajiva) that includes matter, time, space, principle of motion and principle of rest.

Jewish beliefs

Jewish views of the soul begin with the book of Genesis, in which verse 2:7 states, "Hashem formed man from the dust of the earth. He blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being." (New JPS).

Saadia Gaon, in his Emunoth ve-Deoth 6:3, explained classical rabbinic teaching about the soul. He held that the soul comprises that part of a person's mind which constitutes physical desire, emotion, and thought.

Taoist View

Most Taoist schools believe that every individual has more than one soul (or the soul can be separated into different parts) and the souls are constantly transforming themselves. Some believe there are at least three souls for every person: one soul coming from one's father, one from one's mother, and one primordial soul. An important part of spiritual practice for some Taoist schools is to harmonize/integrate those three souls.

Other religious beliefs and views

In Egyptian Mythology, an individual was believed to be made up of various elements, some physical and some spiritual. See the article Egyptian soul for more details.

These are the two parts which the ancient Chinese believed constitute every person's soul. The p‘o is the visible personality indissolubly attached to the body, while the hun is its more ethereal complement also interpenetrating the body, but not of necessity always tied to it. The hun in its wanderings may be either visible or invisible; if the former, it appears in the guise of its original body, which actually may be far away lying in a trance-like state tenanted by the p‘o. And not only is the body duplicated under these conditions, but also the garments that clothe it. Should the hun stay away permanently, death results.

Some transhumanists believe that it will become possible to perform mind transfer, either from one human body to another, or from a human body to a computer. Operations of this type (along with teleportation), raise philosophical questions related to the concept of the Soul.

Science and the soul

Science and medicine seek naturalistic accounts of the observable natural world. This stance is known as methodological naturalism. Much of the scientific study relating to the soul has been involved in investigating the soul as a human belief or as concept that shapes cognition and understanding of the world, rather than as an entity in and of itself.

An oft-encountered analogy is that the brain is to the mind as computer hardware is to computer software. The idea of the mind as software has led some scientists to use the word "soul" to emphasize their belief that the human mind has powers beyond or at least qualitatively different from what artificial software can do. Roger Penrose expounds this position in The Emperor's New Mind. 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.

Research on the concept of the soul

In his book Consilience, E. O. Wilson took note that sociology has identified belief in a soul as one of the UNIVESAL human cultural elements. Wilson suggested that biologists need to investigate how human genes predispose people to believe in a soul.

Daniel Dennett has championed the idea that the human survival strategy depends heavily on adoption of the intentional stance, a behavioral strategy that predicts the actions of others based on the expectation that they have a mind like one's own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul

Answer 7

If I intemperate your words correctly "Human soul" or human spirit has a physical manifestation and interaction that is associated with it. As in what it means to be human, to say anything that excludes the physical is not accurate as we clearly must be in someway linked to physical reality to exist.
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great answer d_r_siva very interesting stuff thanks.