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submitted 1 year ago by azmalent@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

If you do, then what exactly defines a soul in your view?

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[-] azmalent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Because our personality is defined by the brain. It's fully physical. I never said I believe souls have anything to do with personality.

[-] Fenzik@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

But if they don’t have anything to do with who you are as a person (aka personality), and they aren’t your body (aka “just atoms”), then what do they have any impact on?

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

So what exactly does soul do? Just exists and that's it?

[-] azmalent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think they give some kind of meaning to the entire universe.

The universe mostly consists of particles that just exist. For inanimate things that do not perceive the flow of time, a Planck time is the same as the universe's entire lifetime. So without sentient observers, time would make no sense. The universe would instantly jump from its initial state to the final one, so it might as well not exist.

It's like in that philosophical question about a tree falling in the forest where no one hears the sound, but instead of the sound it's about time and therefore all existence. Sorry for bad English, I hope I made myself clear.

this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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