Great lecture! As to the nature of the soul I'd like to point to Wittgenstein whose later philosophy was mainly concerned with this question. He has no theory but observes how psychological words are used in language, not technical but everyday language. From this elucidates that soul, mind, dream and so on are very fine threads of movement. No body, no soul. One might even go so far to say: no gravity, no soul. Wittgenstein is very concerned as to how we can come to believe that we have an inner life that no other person can understand. He suggests that it has to do with an inclination to reify mental concepts. Reify is almost misleading since "mentality" is basically a form of movement - but there's a tendency to "reify" it in objects which, since they're not really there, are imagined and colonize and imaginary realm called mind whose content, then, cannot be communicated since it does not really exist. Mind isn't just body though if one observes the everyday use of psychological words. Stones cannot think. It's the very delicate pattern of movement that doesn't exhibit but i s mind. Also, it's not whatever happens in the brain, but the movement of your limbs in communion with the environment that constitutes mind and thinking.
Great lecture! As to the nature of the soul I'd like to point to Wittgenstein whose later philosophy was mainly concerned with this question. He has no theory but observes how psychological words are used in language, not technical but everyday language. From this elucidates that soul, mind, dream and so on are very fine threads of movement. No body, no soul. One might even go so far to say: no gravity, no soul. Wittgenstein is very concerned as to how we can come to believe that we have an inner life that no other person can understand. He suggests that it has to do with an inclination to reify mental concepts. Reify is almost misleading since "mentality" is basically a form of movement - but there's a tendency to "reify" it in objects which, since they're not really there, are imagined and colonize and imaginary realm called mind whose content, then, cannot be communicated since it does not really exist. Mind isn't just body though if one observes the everyday use of psychological words. Stones cannot think. It's the very delicate pattern of movement that doesn't exhibit but i s mind. Also, it's not whatever happens in the brain, but the movement of your limbs in communion with the environment that constitutes mind and thinking.