Im going to try to actually be philisophical here, but thb i dont think i even know what that means. as a typican layman, i know what i THINK it means, but i have never taken a class on it or even spoken to anyone who claims to be an expert on the subject. anyway im just going to do some critical thinking.
If we have sould why do we need bodies? If we have sould, what becomes of our conciousness and memories after we die. Lets start by assuming that everyting we know about anatomy and phisiology is correct (just to simplify things). We know that memories are stored in the cerebral cortex. Though we dont really understand the nature of this storage medium, we know that memoris form chains, linking to similar memories. As we store more and more memories, our brains have to work harder to move down the chain of memories to get to the one we want. This is food for another topic all together: if our physical bodies where immortal would we go crazy or develop mega-alzymers due to the overwhelming number of memories our brains would eventually have to sift through to remember how to tie our shoes? this seems extreme, but its a fact that a 3rd stage alzymers patient can enter a room and forget how to get out. From what iv been told, alzymers, like most brain diseases, isn't well understood. The basic theory is that over a lifetime the brain gets jammed up like a PC full of porn thats never been defragged or had its regisry repaired.
So, what if we live on after casting away our capable but obviously flawed brains? Do we keep our memories, and transfer them into some other storage system? Do we keep learning and observing, adding more to this new and infinitely superior storage system? Do we still feel? Do we still have a sense of smell without a physical nose? Do we care? Do we even retain any kind of conciousness or do we just turn into Mako energy? All of our experiences, motivations, and outlook are based on our physical bodies and brain chemicals. Because of dopamine, eating is something we look forward to, rather than being a tedious daily routine. etc. etc. you get where im going with this.
im a big fan of Occam's Razor. the idea of a soul was invented by man, along with many other myths that by now have been debunked. even though we cant disprove the existence of a soul, its still sitting in a category of far fetched ideas which served a very real and practical purpose for the people spreading them. Its not a guarantee, but the most likely scenario is fairly obvious when the concept came from the lips of the same people who excommunicated scientists for trying to learn through experimentation rather than reading scripture.
