Free Will: Egnor shows neurological proof (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 04:57 (1226 days ago) @ David Turell

How the self and the brain relate is shown in what happened today. Susan's Mother called late in the afternoon and I spoke with her. She called at the urging of Susan's father. She had asked him if Susan and the 'other' Susan had come by their house. She didn't believe her husband (my father-in-law). I told her I had been with Susan all day and we had not gone by their house at any time. The 'other Susan' is an hallucinatory second Susan self.

Her Mother has serve senile dementia. Her brain scan looks like swiss cheese with destroyed areas everywhere. She thinks all her hallucinations are real. Her self, her soul and her mind are convinced they are real. The second Susan is not the only delusion. There are several that are so real they frighten her. I needn't describe them, but she is sure they are all real.

I don't know how this story fits into your weird concepts about how the soul relates to its brain. Frankie's soul does not know anything is wrong! It is a simple idea: sick brain =s sick soul thoughts, because, and this is the key, the immaterial soul HAS to use the sick brain to think and the soul is fooled, and can never realize it. The immaterial soul uses a material brain for creation of thought. That is true, living dualism we all experience. We know the brain stores all sorts of information and helps is our sensations to fill in holes in what we realize. That is why cloud formations will look like familiar objects like Mickey Mouse, England, a woman's head. I views this as helpful, not distortion of real thought, such as abstractions with which I formed the thoughts behind this exposition. In that case I/soul am running the show and the brain is responding appropriately performing my thoughts, which I recognize as true to my intentional meanings. Pattern help is what confused Romansh.

Your dualistic concept comes across a separate soul dictating to its brain, in full control even if its brain is sick. No way in real life. Psychopaths cannot know they are wrong and cannot be taught to change and develop a conscience. Sociopaths can and do if pressured. Normal folks know right from wrong, and have no excuse.

Dualism must exist. The way I view my interpretation of it is very comfortable and realistic if we simply examine how we live with our thoughts.

The other aspect of it comes from NDE's. It tells us a non-functioning brain allows the soul to separate from it and somehow think on its own, and this implies that the same circumstance happens after true death.