There's no such thing as a soul. We are literally just biological machines - nothing more nothing less.
There's no such thing as a soul. We are literally just biological machines - nothing more nothing less
Says you, faggot.
What do you mean by soul? For me, consciousness is the soul, and I'm sure about my consciousness
We trap the souls of the damned in the engines of the machines we use everyday.
"consciousness" is literally just electrical signals in your brain
The evidence does not support this belief system.
Your religion is flawed.
religion
I'm not religious that's the point
The word "religion" comes from the Roman religio, which literally translates to "scrupulousness"
So using the word religion to refer to the worlds of say judaism, christianity, buddhism, taoism, is purely an academic practice that has no real central definition;
Religion is solely the creation of the scholar’s study. It is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes by his imaginative acts of comparison and generalization. Religion has no independent existence apart from the academy. (Imagining Religion, 1982)
Therefore the most applicable definition for religion is the contemporary one:
a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe
Otherwise you are forced to use a definition that is recursive, e.g.;
adherence to religious practices
Which cannot tell us what religion actually is because it includes itself in its definition.
You absolutely follow a religion and OP clearly communicates that fact.
So I'm only physical? There's nothing metaphysical? Why?
biological machines
Ok but the concept of machines was created by mankind so you're literally describing a religion
atheists 1-move checkmated
That biological machinery is part of what forms our soul
anon realizes he's not only religious but actively proselytizing
Did you just turn 13?
I'm 41
There's no such thing as a soul
I can't stand people on either side of that retard coin. No one knows, fuck off
Oof
No one knows
Nope, *you* don't know. If you spent more than 15 minutes researching the topic you'd realize plenty of people happily accept knowing some degree of personal truth that is both logical and aesthetic.
By all means then, show me your concrete proof
you'd realize plenty of people happily accept knowing some degree of personal truth
Means you're asking me to speak for other people. The point of my reply is to say claiming nobody knows is dishonest and illogical because all it takes is for someone to have more accurate information for your claim to be proven wrong. This is simple logic.
As far as what kind of information disproves OP's sentimental worldview that is a religion less than 200 years old, you have a lot of great data out there;
Untermensch, overmind, god's head, akash - all words for the same phenomenon of the archetypical nature of thought, experience and existence with ample data points
Reincarnations with violations of multiple information paradoxes
Endemic nature of consciousness in organizational systems at all scales in classically living or dead matter alike
"Maharishi Effects" - A contemporary term for a set of physical properties of human will that are measurable and follow the same laws of radiation/electromagnetism as all physical configurations of energy in both new and classical physics. Examples include multipolar interactions and falloff by the square root of distance
Telepathic effects that violate information causality and spacetime causality. If you think I'm bullshitting you are stuck 40 years behind the data. Science 100% knows thought and intention (the cascade of decision making trees that precede any thought or action) can be sampled symmetrically using human minds
All of these examples have overwhelming data that ranges from scientific, cultural, personal, and anecdotal.
Well said, but I have no dog in the fight. I'll find out when I get there.
You are dog (God)
I prefer dogs to """gods""" - at least dogs won't judge me.
You’ve proven nothing. No one knows what occurs after death. Not even a wannabe intellectual like yourself.
The only possible reason you could be worried about being judged is if you already judge yourself. At that point you should realize judgement is exclusively your conception.
Just like you have conceptions of what the word god means and judge it. The first order of this conclusion is always emotional and it is almost always fear.
Only 25% of humanity has a soul or spirit, the rest may not have one.
Some people claim to know. They have at least the same chance of being right as you do since you concede to having 0 knowledge. Your logic is flawed.
sure but even that is tight as fuck
no god needed mathematics
I have peeked over the edge
there is nothing
If you don’t know something you have zero chance of proving it’s real. No one knows what occurs after death. Not even a one.
If consciousness is nothing but electrical reactions in your brain, then why do those reactions in your neurons cause thought, emotions and sensations, but those of a computer or a TV don't?, why do brains produce minds and not any other part of the natural world? If you say just because then you are violating the principle of sufficient reason, even so, as CS Lewis explained, if your mind is explained by merely physical reactions then why should it be trusted? That would be like trusting in the options given by the result of the turning of a wheel, you couldn't even trust your own reasoning or logic since that is controlled by mindless physical, chemical and biological operations that have no interest, intention or predisposition towards correct reasoning, you are just assuming physicalism/materialism as the consensus without taking into consideration its far off consequences. While I don't believe in the soul, because I don't conceive of an unchanging absolutely simple thinking substance behind my mind that is 'myself' as I don't believe in the self, and I think that all thinking beings are in eternal change, I do reject a reductionist account of the mind as the one you presented
They have speculation. That’s a very far cry from proof. You’ve got nothing.
What happens after death is not important to disproving OP's religion and was not referenced in my brief list of obvious proofs I used to disprove OP's religion.
Wrong. Consciousness is irreductible.
Why the fuck you use the word religion when referencing a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe? The word for what you just described is cosmology.
Jesus christ how embarrassing.
Why what?
Why would it be metaphysical? Your body is a physical construct
Planets are not physically touching but exert numerous forces and effects on eachother. They also harmonically synchronize, and those harmonics are unrelated the physical properties of the body.
All forces exerted from planets are physical.
Anything else is fake space magic mumbo jumbo
So electrons, photons and gravitational waves have mass and inertia?
Unironically yes lol
A basic chem / physics textbook from high school would teach this
They are described as having mass or inertia not both.