Michael Shermer - Can a Person Be a Soul?
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Is a soul required to make a person? If there is no soul, is there no person? Almost all scientists and most philosophers find no need for a soul. Certainly, souls are not known to science. What arguments support a soul? Revelations of religions? But then souls are a matter of faith. Any philosophical theories?
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Michael Brant Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.
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This subject has been of interest to me for much of my life, not as an obsession, but as an area that caused me to perk up and think when I read something about it or saw a video like this one. I generally file the experience away as one of those things that I just won't get to know more about. I don't want to criticize anyone else's belief. Three days ago, while I was relaxing on the couch, sort of half asleep, I had an experience that caused me to think of this subject in a different way. I don't want to advance any theories. Here is what happened:
"Can a Person be a Soul?"
Wow less the five comments so far!?
Shermer's comparison of a car to a person is ludicrous.
Richard Swinburne would annihilate this guy💀
This is one of those debates where I find myself warming up to whichever side is NOT making their supposedly triumphant points.
Eternal life would be a nightmare.
Cool experience. Being an awareness not of your body is, ‘as a matter of experience’, quite true, our whole world exists as represented in our awareness. That is experienced by meditators, through drugs, illness, etc. But it doesn’t follow that it can then exist ‘without’ a body/brain. That’s a huge leap that so far has no substance.
If we would only translate the word “soul” properly-psyche, the conversation would be complete different and probably much easier to understand.
Consciousness is entangled to the soul 💫
We don’t have bodies. We are bodies.
Our perception of the soul comes from a sense of awe rather than the certitude that we're mortal. Awe about life, consciousness, love, ethics, nature, the universe etc...
Mike keeps getting better and better through all these years…thank you Mike !! Great logic 😊
The living organism or in the case of humans, we say the living person is the "living soul." (Genesis 2:7 King James Version) For a lifeless organism or person, we say a 'dead soul' ("the soul that sinneth, it shall die." - Ezekiel 18:4 King James version). So there are both living and dead souls. Since all humans are sinners, we all eventually become dead souls. The only immaterial thing possessed by any living organism is the spark of life, "the breath of life," or "spirit of life." (Genesis 7:22) This is the igniting force that makes the transition from dead chemical substance to a living organism. This force originates only with God, the epitome, the ultimate consciousness. When we die, we lose this element of life. We will only repossess it if God reignites it in us, that is if He finds us worthy, and that will be by means of the resurrection. - Psalm 36:9
Excellent interviewing skills, as the host repeats/reframes back to Mr. Shermer what he hears his position to be, to gain clarity for himself and viewers, while validating for the guest that he's being listened to. Would that political debates went this way!
"A soul is self recognition that while our bodies are bound with time and space, the consciousness isn't. The soul means the ability to detach from this world and be passers-by. The ability to control polarity and transcend to divinity. A Soul is a spiritual awakening and enlightenment yet superior to this world NOT after life but why living in the present. This wisdom has been passed on from generation to generation but only few seek it." - THOMAS SOLER
Self- I exist, and to know that you exist you have to be self-aware that you exist, so to be conscious is to be a self.
Please someone turn off this echo🙏🏻😂
If you have a conscience you also have soul too.