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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
The brain is the computer for the physical body, the soul is the user of the computer.
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I won't disagree with that.
One question that has always been floating around in the back of my mind is whether the aware mind, the human consciousness, is just simply the result of enough connections in the right pattern being formed, an unintended side effect. I don't have anything to draw that conclusion from other than subconscious musings mixed with bits and pieces from all over the place and the idea of "greater than the sum of its parts".
I just don't see the soul as seperate from the body. I see the soul as the sum total of who a person is. I've seen nothing to lead me to believe otherwise.
That being said, I see no reason to cast off the idea of spiritual development because an unenlightened person is nothing more than an animal that is short on instincts compared to the rest of the animal kingdom.