[ExI] Weighing the Soul

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Stuart LaForge <avant at sollegro.com> wrote:

> BillW wrote:
>
> > And it just feels wrong for atheists (naturalists) to talk about
> > souls as if they exist in some way.  The only way they exist is in the
> > beliefs of some people, and that is certainly no proof of the existence
> > of anything.   bill w
>
> Ok well that just sounds like a branding issue. We can change the name if
> "soul" bothers you. How does "eidolon" strike you as a technical term for
> what is clearly a physical thing? The physical "image" or pattern of a
> person's consciousness?
>
> Stuart LaForge
> Sounds good to me.  It will never be confused with soul by nonscientists.
> We will never capture an image of it in full detail, I think.  Sensory
> images go through a lot of individualized processing before they reach the
> cortex; recording what a person hears or sees is of little help, of course.
>
> bill w
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