Hello Shuan,
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From: Shuan Rose [mailto:shuanr@boo.net]
Sent: Tue 7/23/2002 2:03 PM
To: JW Burgeson; victorianwife@hotmail.com; Adrian Teo;
RDehaan237@aol.com; dickfischer@earthlink.net; asa@calvin.edu
Cc:
Subject: RE: Infusion of the soul as a process
Unfortunately, this is probably as "clean" as it gets. A
difficulty I see is
that "soul" is commonly thought be the thinking, conscious center of a
person, essentially synonymous with "mind". Since " mind" and
"brain" are
related from a scientific point of view, I find it hard to
understand an
infusion before the development of the brain. Maybe we all
need to settle on
a definition of "soul" ( Does anyone have James Brown's email ?):-)
Adrian: You seem to take a functionalist view of personhood,
i.e. that personhood is defined by the capacities of the biological
entity. However, although one cannot function as a person without
being a person, one can surely be a person without functioning as one
(e.g. in deep sleep, coma, autism). The capacity or function is an
indicator and an effect of being a person, but it cannot define the
person. Functionalists makes the mistake of confusing the sign from
the thing signified.
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