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Could a person die without giving any signs of death? [closed]
The existing definition of death (expert consensus based) is that it is the 1) cessation of bodily functions, 2) Brain EEG flatline
Is it possible though that a person's essence, their individuality ...
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Isn't Consciousness or Feeling = Pattern-ID + Metadata{unsafe-value, ..., }? [closed]
Ask the following to AI:
I think, feeling is so valuable, because it is so varied that its entirety constitutes as 'experience'. Whereas, it is just a different combinations of signals reaching the ...
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Does asking counterfactual questions about the context/conditions of one's birth presuppose the existence of souls? [closed]
If I ask the question "Why was I born in this body and not in another body?" or similar variations such as "Why didn’t I have different parents?" or "Why was I born on this ...
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Did Aquinas say that God cannot destroy a soul?
It seems that that is what he is saying here:
"Now it was shown above (AA. 2, 3) that the souls of brutes are not self-subsistent, whereas the human soul is; so that the souls of brutes are ...
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The vertiginous question: Why am I me and not someone else?
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Benj Hellie's vertiginous question asks why, of all the subjects of experience out there, this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—is the one whose ...
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Did Aristotle believe that the soul influences the body?
In De Anima, Aristotle states that the soul of an animal is realized in its physical form.
Does this mean that he believes souls are like biological blueprints, and that when applied to any sort of ...
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What did socrates believe in after life and what he actually said?
I am reading the book of Bart Ehrman's Heaven and Hell. In there, I might have hit some controversies that may not be controversies at all, but my mind can't decide.
In Apology, socrate says:
Death ...
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Is there ‘reality’ after the death of the observer? Does this imply there are multiple ‘realities’?
I presume that, after death, there would not be any afterlife or any remains of the soul.
while I am alive, I have a certain perception or concept of the universe. I have a sense of space, time, ...
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Location of Soul
Colloquially, we often have a notion that souls are like some sort of ghosts or "cloud inside a bottle" that leave body after death.
I feel the notion of soul in a bit different way. I feel ...
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On Plato's Transmigration of Souls
In Plato's theory of transmigration of souls, do some souls ever make it to a place of eternal bliss or get remanded to a place of eternal punishment?
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Why isn't Buddha nature a soul?
I was thinking about 'soul' and whether what is problematic about it for many is less its permanence than its duality (reminded of my friend on the 'kingdom of heaven' "hey look, Jesus is over ...
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Is there a philosophical doctrine that suggests that the soul endlessly travels between living organisms without being tied to space-time?
By the detachment of the soul from space-time, I understand the ability of the soul, after the death of the organism, to be reborn into anyone, anywhere and anytime. For example, the soul lived in a ...
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Why is it an unpopular view, among philosophers and religious people, that a human being has a supernatural, spiritual soul?
I used to believe that a human being has a supernatural, spiritual soul and that it is obvious for the reasons stated below. I was very surprised to find out that not only secular philosophy, but even ...
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Within scholastics, how does animals' perception work, when compared to humans' apprehension of universals?
In the study of scholastic philosophy, I'm struggling with this question for a while:
It seems like dogs do know what dogs are. Aquinas states that animals have perception, capable of complex ...
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If we accept that living things have a soul, when and where does that happen?
I identify myself as a Christian, but I'm not posting this on Christianity because almost all religions have a definition for soul.
The Latin word "anima" was "something" they ...
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