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Aren’t we all?! and baffled with it at the same time ~~ all a part of learning.
I think that the sandbox is okay. I think that it could have also gone into religion but maybe from my point of view philosophy even more so.
May I ask who told you differently? But you needn’t respond.
I cannot agree with this but who knows. The soul to me is part of the psyche or is the psyche but its driving force may be in part the spirit along with other influences which incite and animate the spirit which also animate the body.(emotions, moods) But I do not mean at the moment of conception. It’s all part of the mind/body relationship.
I thought that it was even less than that. But remember one thing: Science has not as yet found a way to house the brain and in turn the mind without the body as the receptacle. So the body is important.
The way in which you just described the physical body needing to be animated reminded me of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.
This is ALSO the christian or catholic view. At the moment of conception, the soul enters the body, for them.
Hmm…this does make you want to bang your head against the wall, doesn’t it ~~ at least figuratively speaking it does.
Consciousness as awareness, self-awareness, “what is it like to be me” et cetera?
I prefer the word psyche to soul because many believe that the soul lives on but we can’t know this.
[b]Psyche
[sahy-kee]
Spell Syllables
noun
Classical Mythology. a personification of the soul, which in the form of a beautiful girl was loved by Eros.
2.
(lowercase) the human soul, spirit, or mind.
3.
(lowercase) Psychology, Psychoanalysis. the mental or psychological structure of a person, especially as a motive force.
4.
Neoplatonism. the second emanation of the One, regarded as a universal consciousness and as the animating principle of the world.
I suppose one can say that the soul or psyche is the seat of consciousness.
I don’t want to muddy the waters here but perhaps the psyche and human consciousness sit side by side. They are influenced by one another, both positively and negatively.
…“The present work suggests that, rather than hoping for a putative unique marker – the neural correlate of consciousness – a more mature view of conscious processing should consider that it relates to a brain-scale distributed pattern of coherent brain activation,” explained neuroscientist Lionel Naccache, one of the authors of the paper"…
sciencedaily.com/releases/2 … 201459.htm
28 Days: The baby’s muscles are developing. Her arm and leg buds are visible, and her first neocortical cells appear. The neocortex is the seat of complex thinking and reasoning, and it is present in no other mammal.
This is a little girl.
hli.org/resources/is-a-baby … gK_HvD_BwE
There we go. As you can see, you may be the teacher here and me the student.