RE: mind/brain, the soul and immortality

Jack wrote:
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I still have a lot of trouble seperating any sense of personhood from brain
function. It just seems that personality, personhood is completely
dependent on the state of the brain.
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Don P:
If I were to call someone on the phone and either nothing could be heard by
the other end or my voice were coming through garbled, muffled, broken, or
with too much static, would this mean that there was no one calling? Of
course not. Or minds are a conduit for the human spirit. It also provides
necessary physical functions as with any living species on the planet. If
one loses there ability to use their mind, due to Alz or whatever, this does
not mean that our souls/spirits are lost. It simply means that the
connection between our spirit/soul and the physical world has been
interrupted. Be it static(chemical imbalance), broken(Alz/etc),
garbled(strokes), etc. Unless someone has no signs of brain activity, there
is always some evidence of the human spirit remaining. Where do those in
comas go when no brain activity is present, yet the person returns/recovers?
This one only God knows. But it is evident that the soul must have remained
alive somewhere. In the end, our bodies are but a vessel for our souls.
Nothing more and nothing less. We do depend on the brain to enable us to
interact with the physical world, but as for what makes up our spirit, I
take the position that our spirit can influence our mind/body, and our
spirit is influenced by our mind/body, they are separate, yet connected.

Question: Does anyone know if other animals have multiple personalities?

Don Perrett
Received on Sun Mar 20 17:50:32 2005