so alice and i began a massive chat about the soul the other day.. not on any specific trajectory, just a vague conceptual discussion which meandered all over the place.
it was great
is there a difference between personality and the soul? is there more to you than just the sum of past experiences and encounters which condition you to act in a particular way? what makes you able to choose over herd instincts and self-preservation instincts? is there an inbuilt sense of morality? how else have we arrived at a consensus about what is right and wrong, as enshrined in our judicial system for example, despite having completely disparate 'experiences' (if our decisions are the sum of our experinces as above)? is it possible that the soul IS tied to a physical existence? considering the intangible sphere of thought - which was once considered to be immaterial - is in fact electrical impulses in the brain? if you were cloned as you are right this instant, would your clone make the same decisions as you from then on? would they be the same person? how come we can step back from ourselves and our actions and objectively point out flaws in ourselves? is it a process of maturation? or is it evidence of an inner turmoil between the flesh and the spirit? can we assume a code of universal morality without a deity?
how can we know that we will be the same person as we are now in the world to come/heaven? we then spoke about the resurrection, and how it is not an airy fairy transplant from physical to metaphysical based on dualistic principles, but the TRANSFORMATION of the flawed and broken physical into a sinless reality.
back to mabo.
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