Definition Essay †Defining the Soul of Man -- Definition Essays

Definition Essay Defining the Soul of Man Soul has, historically, always been tied up with morality and phantasmal dogma, and I believe modern neuropsychology and psychobiology has effectively refuted any scientific basis for a Soul. To state as fact, The soul exists, one and just now(a) must first socratically define Soul. More on this later Soul, or Consciousness, is, without a doubt, tied up within the billions of curious things called synapses and cells, deep inside the maven. thither are cases of people without consciousness, without the all important I. Usually this happens through the onset of a coma, or sometimes the hippocampus is damaged. (which is where short-term memory, a necessary division of consciousness, is located.) These people do not function properly, and are unaware of themselves. (this is very difficult for us to comprehend, as we are self-aware, and so cannot place ourselves in an antithetic position.) Upon death, all brain waves, all mental ca pacities, and all memories are forever lost. These things are all, again without a scientific doubt, stored in the brain-cells, where they are continually accessed when the brain is alive. But with the onset of death, (which is always and without fail the death of the brain,) these things become locked away in the tiny vaults of a billion cells, never to be accessed again. But this does not irrefutably destroy the belief in Soul. It is much more complex, which is unnerving because a thorough explanation demands numerous paragraphs. There are two major religious beliefs on the soul, and though they may seem diametrically opposed, we must remember that our ideas on the soul exist only because of the conditioned acceptance of these religiou... ...ything that exists is energy, (as is the case), then we undeniably have a soul. But not in the conscious, creative, spiritual sense, only in a semantic sense. Since consciousness is inextricably linked with soul, and we are only con scious while in our bodies, the immortal soul theory breaks down. How do we know it is immortal? Support that. Give empirical evidence for it. You cant, so wherefore believe in something that has no support, aside from an old dogma that has been contradicted a thousand times by science and empirical evidence? But, as I said, if Soul means nothing more than Energy, than we have a soul. But the moment Soul means anything else, science refutes it.Works CitedMasson, Jeffrey. When Animals Weep. New York, Delacorte Press, 1995De Wall, Franz. Chimpanzee Politics. rear end Hopkins University Press, 1989.