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Originally Posted by neil w
Then you would be arguing the soul doesnt exist except as an intellectual and social construction as everything could be described by the brain and its functions and it would be redundant to call it a soul. Hence any meaningful definition of soul has be to be something apart from the brain.
there is very little consensus in philosophy just as there isnt in religion.
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that is what I'm arguing but I don't think its not meaningful its just not magical...I really don't think there is another word that adequately describes the brain and all its functions....sure there is cognition but it's more than that...it's personality but also thoughts etc. But what of those thoughts we don't acknowledge. What do we call the sum total of non physical components of a person other than a soul? The brain and all its electrochemical components are like the musical notes but the soul is more like music itself. They are the same but very different as well.