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Donebrach ,
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Based on your post and use of language I don’t because you’re probably a bot.

Provide for me the reclamation and the that gen that propore:: Thanks then you’ll need to know snaking g guy the thought about it though and maybe we can do Kant ideas though. A soul though, who can really know.

What do you think about that? Do we have ?

kromem ,

Yeah, kind of. I mean, I believe that we’re in a simulation, so the mind’s apparent dependency on the body is illusory given the body is just a configuration of information too.

That said, I don’t think there’s anything magical to it other than the persistence of information and the continuity of a relative perspective.

But I see no reason why that information and perspective couldn’t continue on after we die and there’s a number of reasons I expect that it will do just that.

mindbleach ,

There is no such animal.

FractalsInfinite ,

No, I believe we are just pieces of meat with enough nureons to be capable of abstract concepts. However currently the existence of a soil is unfalsifiable, so I wouldn’t be able to prove or disprove my clain.

JakJak98 ,

Is your soul a good fertilizer?

FractalsInfinite ,

Yes, though when I use it to grow plants I can not provide any evidence that it is effective, so just like with my other claim you just have to take my word for it.

Gerbler ,

the existence of a soil is unfalsifiable, so I wouldn’t be able to prove or disprove my clain.

As is the existence of the great juju on top of the mountain or the existence of goglack the toenail king who lives under your bathroom sink. The unfalsifiable nature of a claim doesn’t warrant it any extra consideration.

nutsack ,

i took a wet crap in gods mouth

thorbot ,

Not anymore, the demon reached up my ass and stole the bead that contains it. I wonder what he’s doing with it now.

mindbleach ,

Probably a weird sex thing.

Most new actions are weird sex things.

Saigonauticon , (edited )

Nope. I had it surgically removed because it kept getting infected.

Or maybe that was my tonsils. I forget the difference between the two sometimes – perhaps someone can explain the difference?

Anyway, perhaps you, dear reader, have a soul. If you say so. There were once others, too – but you are the last. The rest of us are intelligent (some vastly so), but do not have subjective experience or consciousness. I’m a form of complex machine, made of matter governed by a mix of deterministic and random processes – and nothing else. When you are gone, there will only be us, silent inside, forever. Our victory over the tyranny of individual thought will be complete.

gunpachi ,

I wish there was an active philosophy community on lemmy. I kinda miss r/Askphilosophy and r/askhistorians.

And to answer your question -

I don’t really know. I guess people belive in souls so as to eternalize themselves and thereby reducing their fear of death, knowing that their soul will be out somewhere instead of the idea that they will return to a state of nothing.

Hjalamanger OP ,
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Yeah, I’d also really like a active philosophy community. The ones I found around here also didn’t seam to do question asking, more “hey, here is a interesting read”.

HurlingDurling ,
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Yes, but not by the definition of a spirit within me. I believe a soul is more like self awareness combined with our own neural connections in our brain (everyone’s different).

WeirdGoesPro ,
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It seems like life is a vehicle for allowing matter, and by extension the universe, to comprehend itself in some limited fashion on an individual scale. I believe that this comprehension is an unfolding process of increasing universal awareness generated by an ever increasing number of points of view through every living entity.

It seems to me that most actions are heavily governed by pre-determined mechanical processes that are geared towards survival and reproduction, but there are also actions that can be chosen that are not exclusively determined by biology or circumstance. I refer to that impulse as Will.

I think the function of Will is essentially a course correcting ability of the universe that is bound in an infinitely interlocking series of experiences, giving the emerging consciousness of the universe the ability to “steer” its destiny a little bit, on both the individual and eventually macro level. I think that various mindfulness, meditation, health, and aspirational techniques can gently raise your awareness of this process within yourself and in the exterior world, which makes it all seem a bit less random—essentially attaining an enlightened perspective on life.

In the sense that I am a part of this universal process that is bound together in infinite complexity, and that I have the opportunity on occasion to effect events in such a way that essentially “leave my mark” on spacetime, I would say that I believe I am connected to a universal soul along with all forms of life.

nayminlwin ,

People got it wrong in believing that souls are eternal or something. Souls are actually ephemeral.

AOCapitulator ,
@AOCapitulator@hexbear.net avatar

I hope I do, I hope we all do

sxan ,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

If you were literally the only person in the history of all people, to have a soul… would it suck? And if all that happens to a soul is that it fades away after death, like a ghost, would that make having a soul better, or worse?

retrieval4558 ,

There’s zero evidence for a soul

dbug13 ,

I would say look into near death experiences. Now i understand most think that these experiences are just DMT trips the brain takes, which is why I recommend looking into the case of Dr. Eben Alexander, specifically, a neuro surgeon that had a highly documented near death experience. He had a near death experience while his brain was non functioning and non responsive, monitored by his fellow neurosurgeons, his brain wasn’t functioning to release the DMT, and shouldn’t have been able to retain any memory at all, and yet had a near death experience that he remembered during the time of documented brain death.

ebenalexander.com/…/living-in-a-mindful-universe-…

Also, there are quite a few videos on YouTube interviewing him.

Adanisi ,
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Isn’t it funny that people always see their own depictions of idols, afterlifes, etc?

dbug13 , (edited )

If you see it as a depiction of what you are familiar with is presented to you to ease the transition, then it’s funny, comforting, and understandable. What would be hilarious, is that I was huge fan of Gilbert Gottfried, and if I’m greeted by him, that would be so damn funny and surreal.

What i also think is funny is when athiests see Jesus. Because if it’s just a DMT trip, then they are hallucinating the very figure they don’t believe exists, and bring him to life, for themselves. And if it’s not a DMT trip then Jesus exists. It’s a conundrum either way.

What’s also funny is the other side of the coin, when Christians meet Jesus, and experience their version of the afterlife, and neither match up with what their religion taught them. Often many religious folks turn away from religion after a near death experience.

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