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Title: Has Man a soul?
Post by: Curious Cat on 24/09/2021 07:59:43
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Title: Re: Has Man a soul?
Post by: marklivin on 26/09/2021 09:09:07
As a materialist, I can say that a person does not have a soul and cannot have it, because everything is subject to physical material laws in which there is no place for a soul.
Title: Re: Has Man a soul?
Post by: Bored chemist on 26/09/2021 10:09:00
Has Man a soul?
There is no evidence to suggest that he has.
Title: Re: Has Man a soul?
Post by: Bored chemist on 26/09/2021 13:47:32
Well if the man has no soul, why does the man wonder about it?
Because he has a brain.
Title: Re: Has Man a soul?
Post by: Bored chemist on 26/09/2021 22:13:24
a word nature has been using for quite some time
That's just silly.
Nature does not use words.
Title: Re: Has Man a soul?
Post by: hamdani yusuf on 27/09/2021 07:23:47
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In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being.[1] Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psĂ˝khein, "to breathe", cf. Latin 'anima') comprises the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, qualia, memory, perception, thinking, etc. Depending on the philosophical system, a soul can either be mortal or immortal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul
Thus soul is the result of objectification of mental abilities.
objectification : the expression of something abstract in a concrete form.
It's a process running in living organisms. Just like the term wind is used to represent moving air, or sound to express propagating vibration in media. We can't separate/isolate wind from the air, nor sound from its propagating media. Although we can convert their energy into different forms, and recreate them in another time and place. For example, use the wind to produce electricity and store it in batteries, which is then used to run an electric blower.