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Subject: Re: What is a "soul?"

Author:
Michelle

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Date Posted: 05:49:05 07/19/02 Fri
In reply to: Astrid 's message, "Re: What is a "soul?"" on 20:48:32 07/18/02 Thu

>My belief is that the soul doesn't exist at all. We
>are simply our bodies, which include our brains. But
>we've evolved a consciousness that causes us to feel
>like the people we are--that gives us that sense of
>"me" that our bodies alone don't give us. Why we
>evolved this is a very hard question--clearly it was
>adaptive, but I think it can also be maladaptive, too
>(for example, other species don't commit suicide).

So, when we die, our "consciousness" just shuts off? Is that what you are saying?

>I don't believe in any afterlife that doesn't involve
>helping the flowers grow. I like Sagan's idea that we
>are made of starstuff--starstuff pondering the stars.
>And when we die we're still starstuff, just in
>different form again.

So life is just what it is here on this planet- and it ends there?

>Oh, and how we are individuals is that we're all
>different--genetically and through environment. Just
>like snowflakes.

So our genetics shape our "consciousness?"

I am going to start another post on this thread to discuss another point.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: What is a "soul?"	Astrid	10:16:55 07/19/02 Fri

Re: What is a "soul?"	Siannach	20:56:43 08/04/02 Sun