What are we really? Is who I am really just a couple of pounds of muscle of flesh floating in my head? Am I just a brain? Am I just a system of impulses with the sole purposes of living as long as I can? I believe this to be false. I believe the brain is something seperate from the entity that makes you who we are.
The brain does things automatically. It makes your body breathe, scratch a spot that itches, tap/shake your leg while reading or watching TV. It does things that you don't even have to think about. Wait, what did I just say. "It does things YOU don't even have to think about." If you are a brain using a body manufactured in your mommy's tummy during birth as a host, how can you not know EXACTLY what's going on in your brain. How can YOU (a brain) not be in control of every nerve and command sent through your body?
"It does things YOU don't even have to think about." Then, you are "you"? Is the concept of personality, morals, beliefs, all a part or a segment of the brain? Is the part of who YOU are that can make poetry, literature, the part of you that can philosiphizie just an other piece of your brain? Or is it something seperate from the brain, more than the brain. Is it just a system impulses, is it just a brainthat allows me to question what I am?
The part of you that can love someone like a sister or a mother or a father. That is something YOU think about, not something your brain does.
Scenario: You see a loved one about to get hit by a car. If you were nothing more than a brain, the instant message sent through your body would be to get yourself out of the way of danger. Like a robot. Keep yourself functional. But most people are not like this. They fight the urge to runaway from danger. The sense of love towards someone overrides the fear of death and you will overcome any odd to save the person you love. Is the brain capable of something like this? Or is it something else that allows us to stomp on raw impulses and do what you "heart" desires.
This seperate entity which I believe to exist, is what I think most people refer to as a "soul". Now don't get me wrong, I'm not the most religous guy ever, but I firmly believe that we are more than THIS:
and that there is something else to us. Something that allows us to think outside our network of impulses that exists solely to keep us alive. There is more to us that allows us to think, feel, be scared, and wonder what is beyond. Wondering, philosphy, believing.
Call it a soul if you want I guess. But this is the something that is liberated after death.I dont think once your heart stops beating, that you are dead; the game is over, you no longer exist. I used to think this, than I started thinking otherwise, and then I realized thinking otherwise had to mean that there was something other than the brain.
So what do you think honestly? Is this all a bunch of crap? We are abrain, the body is what we use to keep the brain alive, once the body is too old and weak to function and keep the brain alive, the brain dies, end of story.
Or do you think the part of you that allows you to think, feel and wonder beyond what we have is the part of you that is seperate from the brain, something like a soul?
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