Does the Soul Exist? Consciousness, Brain and Quantum Physics
“Whatever may or may not be the soul’s future, there is one impregnable central fact in existence: that here and now, in this world, we have a soul which has a life of its own in its appreciation of truth, beauty, harmony and good against evil.” – Imam Sultan Muḥammad Shah Aga Khan III
- Conscious states or mental events lack the spatio-temporal properties of material objects
- Conscious states are not divisible into parts or components as are material objects
- Conscious states possess an aboutness or intentionality directed toward other things while material objects are not “about” anything.
- Conscious states possess qualia or qualitative characteristics
- Conscious states, in certain cases, include abstract ideas like mathematical objects or logical operators
- Conscious states, in certain cases, are logically structured and ordered in their sequence, i.e. 2 + 2 = 4
- The correlation between brain activity and conscious states breaks down in certain cases
- Certain conscious states like Near Death Experiences occur when no brain activity is present (this is verified in peer reviewed studies)
- The human consciousness is self-aware or reflexive while material objects lack self-awareness.
- There is no explanation of how material brain events such as neural firings give rise to the qualitative and non-spatial features of conscious experience.
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