Why do we need stored memories in the brain?

[Akita Suggagaki]

If the spirit survives the death of the body and has recollection of personality and memory, why do we need to store memories in a physical brain?

 

[Michie]

If the spirit survives the death of the body and has recollection of personality and memory, why do we need a physical brain to store memory?

That’s an interesting question. I’ve often wondered what happens to soul when a person is in a vegetative state. Anyway, only comment I have. Just wanted to be alerted when someone posts.

 

[chevyontheriver]

If the spirit survives the death of the body and has recollection of personality and memory, why do we need a physical brain to store memory?

RAM vs EPROM

 

[awitch]

Where else would you store it if you weren't a free floating full torso vaporous apparition?

 

[bekkilyn]

If the spirit survives the death of the body and has recollection of personality and memory, why do we need a physical brain to store memory?

Perhaps for the benefit of the ego or personality.

 

[BobRyan]

If the spirit survives the death of the body and has recollection of personality and memory, why do we need a physical brain to store memory?

I have wondered that myself ... a few times.

What if the brain is the IOS - the accessor to the data but does not have the data itself?

What if brain damage is merely damage to the accessing machinery but the data remains?

Imagine that the brain is the bicycle -- the rider is the soul/spirit

When the rider gets a new bicycle -- it is the same rider.

 

[AV1611VET]

If the spirit survives the death of the body and has recollection of personality and memory, why do we need a physical brain to store memory?

Man is a tripartite: body, soul, spirit.

Body = soma = feeds on food

Soul = psyche = feeds on emotions

Spirit = pneuma = feeds on things of God

 

[BobRyan]

RAM vs EPROM

forms of storage but what about the accessor logic and the CPU? what if the accessing logic is the brain and it also contains the CPU - but it has no data without the soul/spirit. And as someone else noted personality/character formation might also be soul/spirit and less about "machinery"/hardware.

The clock speed and the capability of the CPU could all be just hardware. But what programing logic? What data? what character? -- maybe that is all soul/spirit.

even during brain surgery when they stimulate the memory-access hardware for the brain - it replays a memory - but is that memory simply being "accessed" there by the brain - or do a couple of cells in your brain perfectly encode the sight, feeling, sound, temp, emotion you had when you tossed that fire cracker in the driveway when you were 12? If 5 cells are doing it then what are they using to store the information... ribosomes? Mitochondria?

 

[AV1611VET]

What if the brain is the IOS - the accessor to the data but does not have the data itself?

The brain is considered part of the body, whereas the soul resides in the heart.

(If I understand tripartite theology correctly.)

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

I can only figure that as incarnate spirits we need to operate this body and to do that we need senses and some kind of localized processing centrality, like ego. The ego, because of its very hardwired nature, needs ready access to hardwired memory. Spirit uses the ego while in the body.

I don't know. It baffles me.

 

[awitch]

The brain is considered part of the body, whereas the soul resides in the heart.

(If I understand tripartite theology correctly.)

What happens to the recipient of a heart transplant?

 

[BobRyan]

The brain is considered part of the body, whereas the soul resides in the heart.

(If I understand tripartite theology correctly.)

In the heart? Do you mean the blood pumping organ or are you using heart symbolically ? If symbolically then "soul resides in the symbol" still needs the literal translation for that symbol.

 

[AV1611VET]

What happens to the recipient of a heart transplant?

QV please: Post 287 and subsequent posts.

 

[bekkilyn]

What happens to the recipient of a heart transplant?

The heart is often used in scripture as a metaphor for a person's inner, true self or soul, and not the anatomical body part, but I'm not speaking for anyone else here on that one though considering how many strict bible literalists seem to reside on CF who probably do believe there is a soul living in there, and that a tiny little physical Jesus often stands outside knocking to get in.

 

[awitch]

QV please: Post 287 and subsequent posts.

When someone dies, the soul is no longer in the heart, right? So if you put the heart with no soul into the body of another person what soul do they have when their original, diseased heart is removed?

Or are they in purgatory because their original heart is dead?

Is it a sin to perform heart transplants?

 

[AV1611VET]

In the heart? Do you mean the blood pumping organ or are you using heart symbolically ? If symbolically then "soul resides in the symbol" still needs the literal translation for that symbol.

Proverbs 23:7a For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:

 

[HARK!]

It seems to be a backup for the heart.

(CLV) Hb 10:16
"`This is the covenant which I shall be covenanting with them after those days,' the Lord is saying, `imparting My laws to their hearts, I shall be inscribing them on their comprehension also,

 

[AV1611VET]

When someone dies, the soul is no longer in the heart, right? So if you put the heart with no soul into the body of another person what soul do they have when their original, diseased heart is removed?

They will still be themselves. Their brain will reprogram their new heart.

If you put a new hard drive into a computer, and reload your software onto it, voila ... there you go.

Or are they in purgatory because their original heart is dead?

There's no such thing as purgatory.

Is it a sin to perform heart transplants?

No.

 

[Jamdoc]

If the spirit survives the death of the body and has recollection of personality and memory, why do we need a physical brain to store memory?

That's like asking why we need a body. God designed us to have one, and God designed the brain to coordinate all the body's fucntions, and to be a physical house to all the aspects of our personhood. Even if it's referred to as "the heart", the actual physical location, is the brain. Not a muscle that creates a blood pressure flow to FEED the brain. "Heart" just means the core of your being, not the physical blood pump.
When people get a heart transplant it's the person who's brain received the heart that wakes up, not the person who donated the heart.

 

[Jamdoc]

What happens to the recipient of a heart transplant?

It's a huge misconception to associate "the heart" when the bible talks about it to mean the blood pumping organ. You do not think or feel with your physical heart. The fact that it can be replaced by a machine, or transplanted, and you wake up with your identity intact, should clearly indicate this.