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> But allow me to play angel's advocate. Perhaps the brain is just like RAM on which consciousness in this world needs to run, whereas the soul, which exists e
by jbandela1 4y ago
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But allow me to play angel's advocate. Perhaps the brain is just like RAM on which consciousness in this world needs to run, whereas the soul, which exists elsewhere, contains a hard drive that stores all the data and a processor that makes certain decisions; so that even if the RAM is destroyed, the hard drive and processor persist, but the machine in this world stops working properly.
If you are going to frame it that way, a much better analogy is that the soul is software and the brain/body is hardware.
- bee_rider 4y agoI don’t really get the analogy anyway. What are we supposed to have some eternal hard drive that persists after our deaths, but which we can’t access while interacting with the physical universe? Maybe it is just /dev/null, we can’t tell the difference.
- danwills 4y agoI think there are some interesting parallels here with Michael Levin's group's work where they also make the hardware/software analogy. Genes/DNA are said to build The 'hardware', that a bioelectric 'software' runs on. A key part of the discovery is that it's not just neurons that form bioelectric networks of cells (via gap junctions etc), even single-celled organisms (in biofilms etc) do it too!
- roywiggins 4y agoIf it were true, it would be in principle testable, because particles inside our brains would have to behave contrary to the known laws of physics in order to be influenced by the soul.