sábado, 23 de mayo de 2009

About Soul

The last few days I've been thinking about soul, and about its nature, but I still have some questions that I don't know how to answer, and may be you can help me from a theological point of view.

From a biological point of view, life is the result of complex processes of Carbon chemistry. It means that our genetical code is what makes us be what we are. My body is mine, like my pen is mine, but I’m not the body.

So what I am? Am I my thoughts?. But these thoughts are also based on chemistry… but are these thoughts my soul? My brain is like a computer only based on electrochemical reactions, and my conscience is like the software running on this computer. I have neurons instead of chips, but its functionality is still deterministic.

So where does my soul reside? If I switch off the computer, what is going to happen to me with what I am? What is the nature of the soul? What is it made of?

I hope that someone will help me to asnwer this questions.