Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
But what is your self that you are talking about?

You are in your belief entirely physical. There is no spiritual or soul part of you.

You have a physical place in your brain that stores memories, a physical place that processes and regulates things such as movement, hunger, thirst levels, fear, sexual excitement etc.

If the parts that controlled these parts of you were removed you would no longer have thought or personality, as they don't exist independently of the brain according to your world view.

Furthermore as all the cells in your body are constantly being replaced your physical body is comprised of totally different molecues than it was several years ago.

Think an axe when someone replaces the head, then years later replaces the handle. It's not the same axe any more it's physically different.

You are an entirely physical organism too. All the cells in your body have been changed and replaced many times. How can you possibly be the same person unless you have a spirit or soul independent of your physical form?

So confused...
I don't know fully what I am, but I do know that I seem to be quite distinct from many others. I am also quite similar to many more. You are what you are, how can you be anything else?

You seem to be having issues with my definition of soul. Must soul be only a religious term? I don't think so. I think of soul as a human with those various facets that you yourself describe. But I do think intellectualism is a part of the brain that plays more of a role within some than others. Sure, the cells are continually fading and that what I think is me is actually long dead. But it is reproduced in memory and there is physical documentation of what I once was.

Within this body and via the food and liquids I digest this physical form is somehow perpertuated and that is all I know. I also know that one day I shall die and that it really will disintegrate for good. I have no issues with that.

Sure, you want people to change their moods with drugs, then fair enough. I don't mind all that much. But it is unnatural.

The mind should be able to adapt on it's own and it usually can. If it can't then I question the purpose of it continuing.