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Exploring Christianity
The Relationship Between the "Soul" and the Brain?
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<blockquote data-quote="mmarco" data-source="post: 76197590" data-attributes="member: 421567"><p>As a physicist I know very well that cosnciousness is irreducibe to cerebral processes, which means that our conscious mind cannot be generated by the brain. In fact, according to our scientific knowledges, all chemical and biological processes (including cerebral processes) are caused by the electromagnetic interaction between subatomic particles such as electrons and protons. Quantum mechanics accounts for such interactions, as well as for the properties of subatomic particles. The point is that there is no trace of consciousness, sensations, emotions, etc. in the laws of quantum mechanics (as well as in all the laws of physcis). Consciousness is irreducible to the laws of physics, while all cerebral processes are, which is sufficient to prove that consciousness is irreducible to cerebral processes and that cerebral processes cannot be identified as the cause of consciousness. It should also be considered that brain processes consist of billions of sequences of elementary processes that take place in different points of the brain; if we attributed to these processes the property of consciousness, we would have to associate with the brain billions of different minds and personalities. The basic assumption of materialism (which identifies cerebral processes as the origin of consciousness) is then contradicted by this fundamental scientific result, i.e. the irreducibility of consciousness to cerebral processes. This result represents the most strong argument in favour of the existence of the soul, as the unphysical and trascendent principle necessary for the existence of our consciousness. </p><p>Our mind is the result of the interaction between the soul and the brain. In fact, if there were no interaction between the soul and the brain, our mind would be totally isolated from the external world and we could not even comunicate with other people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mmarco, post: 76197590, member: 421567"] As a physicist I know very well that cosnciousness is irreducibe to cerebral processes, which means that our conscious mind cannot be generated by the brain. In fact, according to our scientific knowledges, all chemical and biological processes (including cerebral processes) are caused by the electromagnetic interaction between subatomic particles such as electrons and protons. Quantum mechanics accounts for such interactions, as well as for the properties of subatomic particles. The point is that there is no trace of consciousness, sensations, emotions, etc. in the laws of quantum mechanics (as well as in all the laws of physcis). Consciousness is irreducible to the laws of physics, while all cerebral processes are, which is sufficient to prove that consciousness is irreducible to cerebral processes and that cerebral processes cannot be identified as the cause of consciousness. It should also be considered that brain processes consist of billions of sequences of elementary processes that take place in different points of the brain; if we attributed to these processes the property of consciousness, we would have to associate with the brain billions of different minds and personalities. The basic assumption of materialism (which identifies cerebral processes as the origin of consciousness) is then contradicted by this fundamental scientific result, i.e. the irreducibility of consciousness to cerebral processes. This result represents the most strong argument in favour of the existence of the soul, as the unphysical and trascendent principle necessary for the existence of our consciousness. Our mind is the result of the interaction between the soul and the brain. In fact, if there were no interaction between the soul and the brain, our mind would be totally isolated from the external world and we could not even comunicate with other people. [/QUOTE]
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