<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Stuart LaForge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avant@sollegro.com" target="_blank">avant@sollegro.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>BillW wrote:<br>
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> And it just feels wrong for atheists (naturalists) to talk about<br>
> souls as if they exist in some way. The only way they exist is in the<br>
> beliefs of some people, and that is certainly no proof of the existence<br>
> of anything. bill w<br>
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</span>Ok well that just sounds like a branding issue. We can change the name if<br>
"soul" bothers you. How does "eidolon" strike you as a technical term for<br>
what is clearly a physical thing? The physical "image" or pattern of a<br>
person's consciousness?<br>
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Stuart LaForge<br>
</font></span><div class="m_-259158641806474169HOEnZb"><div class="m_-259158641806474169h5"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</div><br>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</span><br>
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