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re: Do you believe in the concept of a "soul"?
Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:15 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:15 pm to DavidTheGnome
Its fictitious.
It's part of the programming apparatus of the dominant paradigm.
Its safely out of reach.
It's part of the programming apparatus of the dominant paradigm.
Its safely out of reach.
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Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:21 pm to DavidTheGnome
100% 
Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:22 pm to DavidTheGnome
No, I do not.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:37 pm to LaBR4
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I know sometimes it needs to be fed
Dammit, now Ima have to head over to the cracker barrel.....
Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:56 pm to DavidTheGnome
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which given the topic I guess would be hard if not impossible.
yep.
and i think the other parts are probably quibbling over terminology. but such are philosophy/theology and the like.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:57 pm to DavidTheGnome
Does a ghost in the machine count as a soul
Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:59 pm to DavidTheGnome
Anybody who has heard Al Green (the real one not the nutjob in Congress) sing does.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 7:23 pm to DavidTheGnome
Through out most of history people have believed in a soul.
Yes I do in a classical Catholic Christian sense.
Even Marcus Aurelious believed in a soul.
Yes I do in a classical Catholic Christian sense.
Even Marcus Aurelious believed in a soul.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 7:27 pm to DavidTheGnome
Love love love -The Beatles
Posted on 4/7/18 at 7:52 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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Even Marcus Aurelious believed in a soul.
Odd person to pick for an example, was he a big atheist or something?
Posted on 4/7/18 at 7:55 pm to DavidTheGnome
As much as I want to, the older I get, the less inclined I am to believe.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:16 pm to Kafka
What C.S. said
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:21 pm to fr33manator
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There is definitely an indescribable, metaphysical presence to people.
Ive slowly come to accept this
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:24 pm to wfallstiger
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What C.S. said
God-shaped hole?
That's actually a very profound concept that is often given short shrift. Keller expounds upon it in an accessible fashion in Making Sense of God. I'll to try to summarize later.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:27 pm to DavidTheGnome
Some people have souls, but not everyone. There's no way to know for sure, but the best way to know if someone has a soul is if they were baptized into the Roman Catholic church as an infant.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:32 pm to CelticDog
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Its fictitious.
It's part of the programming apparatus of the dominant paradigm.
Its safely out of reach.
I love faux intellectualism.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:32 pm to Rouge
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mine glows
Ever notice how closely the g and the b are situated on the keyboard?
On topic.. yes, of course.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:34 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Im not disagreeing with you but what in your opinion is consciousness?
Consciousness is a function of the brain that allows us to predict the future based upon memories of the past. That's one of our abilities that distinguishes us from every other mammal, even the very large-brained whales, dolphins, chimps and apes, elephants, dogs and wolves, all of which have high levels of intelligence and low levels of consciousness.
Consciousness also allows us to recognize that other people think and reason as we do, the so-called Theory of Mind. This affords us empathy, or the ability to see from another person's perspective.
Our advanced version of consciousness arose from a mutation that allows us to think symbolically. Not only do we think in symbols but we also communicate using sounds as tokens for things and ideas.
This ability to think and communicate symbolically has led humans to science and technology. In turn, science and technology will give rise to artificial intelligence which will have a brain that also incorporates a consciousness function.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:44 pm to Kentucker
Interesting way to think about it. I’m going to assume you think AI could advance to the point that it would be considered to have consciousness? Not just imitate consciousness but actually be self aware.
Posted on 4/7/18 at 8:55 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yes. A soul is an extension of man’s consciousness.
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