"There is no gene for the human spirit"

We are all parts of the "whole" though....I feel...just like your cells are part of the "whole" of what you are...

scientist say that everybody uniformly losses 23 grams when you die, interesting huh? but the thing is

what can be lost but never found
Weighs 23 grams but is almost nothing
And has directed humanity by organised religion
and now is tainted

Originally posted by bogen
scientist say that everybody uniformly losses 23 grams when you die, interesting huh? but the thing is

what can be lost but never found
Weighs 23 grams but is almost nothing
And has directed humanity by organised religion
and now is tainted

Air does have height. I don't know if a lung full is 23 grams or not.

I remember that 23 grams thing from a movie. I think the soul is a combination of the physical brain and the personality of the person.

Come on... the soul is not on the physical plane.

Originally posted by mailedbypostman
I remember that 23 grams thing from a movie. I think the soul is a combination of the physical brain and the personality of the person.

So, the Soul weighs about 21 grams then. But that's for normal people. An overweight soul (wise people) weighs about 52 grams! 🤣 Sorry...just had to.

Seriously though, the soul is what each and every living being (including non-human beings) is in essence.

The "Soul" is an interesting thing....I believe it's the essence and we are all part of it on an individual level... I believe that really we are all one essence in our connection....So really we are all parts of each other...

I think that's kind of a cool thing...If more people realized that we are really all one, maybe we'd start getting some harmony around here.

Yes. All is one solid continuity...

Hmmm. My views on the "soul" don't really fit with the classical image of some sort of essence part of us. To me a soul is nothing more then another name for the whole. I don't see a difference between the mind and "soul" - but then it's the same with the "heart", it's not responsible for emotion, it's a muscle that pumps blood. The brain is a mass of energy and neural pathways. It is the soul - memories, experiences, personality, fears, hopes, aspirations, dreams emotions, all of that - the "soul" isn't some separate part of us, to me it's just another word for the sum of our parts.

Which is what annoys me about arguments that a human clone would have no rights because it has no "soul", or that if a robot became sentient it would have no soul, to grow, to learn, to be sentient. To have memories and personality, that's simply a soul to me, a human clone has just as much "soul" to me as a "normal" human, a sentient robot just as deserving of rights as any other sentient being, not needing some badge of honor, some opinion that a soul makes something real.

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
I don't see a difference between the mind and "soul" - but then it's the same with the "heart", it's not responsible for emotion, it's a muscle that pumps blood.

I concur; the nonphysical characteristics of an individual, commonly referred to as the "soul," are nothing more than the "mind," an evanescent bi-product of brain functioning.

The concept of a soul itself is difficult to define, because there have been so many different ideas as to what it really is.

Just look at identical twins, many similarities, but definitely 2 distinct people. And they have identical genes. Their spirits/personalities are not identical however.