What is the Soul?

[FoBoT]

 

[Jeff7]

the soul is an immaterial substance, hence it is not possible to locate in one's body, though it is closely related to it. a good question to ask is how something immaterial, like the soul, can interact with the body. if you find the answer let me know

And if it is capable of interacting with the body so regularly, and so forcibly, why is it so consistently and utterly impossible to measure or quantify?

 

[Braznor]

The word 'soul' is a mythical religious concept.

The word 'consciousness' is a modern term trying to explain the unitary experience of cognition of higher ordered living beings.

All in all, I do believe the key to consciousness is rooted in the mysteries of Quantum mechanics. A possible location for this phenomenon could be based within the microtubulin molecules inside the cytoskeleton of our neurons. These microtubules could be the prime candidates for Quantum processing inside our brains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orch-OR

Hameroff proposed that microtubules were suitable candidates to support quantum processing.[24] Microtubules are made up of tubulin protein subunits. The tubulin protein dimers of the microtubules have hydrophobic pockets which might contain delocalized π electrons. Tubulin has other smaller non-polar regions, for example 8 tryptophans per tubulin, which contain π electron-rich indole rings distributed throughout tubulin with separations of roughly 2 nm. Hameroff claims that this is close enough for the tubulin π electrons to become quantum entangled.[25] Quantum entanglement is a state in which quantum particles can alter one another's quantum-mechanical state instantaneously and at a distance, in a way which would not be possible if they were macroscopic objects obeying the laws of classical physics.
In the case of the electrons in the tubulin subunits of the microtubules, Hameroff has proposed that large numbers of these electrons can become involved in a state known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. These occur when large numbers of quantum particles become locked in phase and exist as a single quantum object. These are quantum features at a macroscopic scale, and Hameroff suggests that through a feature of this kind, quantum activity, which is usually at a very tiny scale, could be boosted to be a large scale influence in the brain.
Hameroff has proposed that condensates in microtubules in one neuron can link with microtubule condensates in other neurons and glial cells via gap junctions.[26][27] In addition to the synaptic connections between brain cells, gap junctions are a different category of connections, where the gap between the cells is sufficiently small for quantum objects to cross it by means of a process known as quantum tunneling. Hameroff proposes that this tunneling allows a quantum object, such as the Bose-Einstein condensates mentioned above, to cross into other neurons, and thus extend across a large area of the brain as a single quantum object.
He further postulates that the action of this large-scale quantum feature is the source of the gamma synchronization observed in the brain, and sometimes viewed as a neural correlate of consciousness.[28] In support of the much more limited theory that gap junctions are related to the gamma oscillation, Hameroff quotes a number of studies from recent years.[29]

 

[Braznor]

After Braznor.. you are the worst at creating threads.

Do you think of me all day and night?

Oh gawd, I have a stalker obsessed with me!

 

[IronWing]

If it's this one, I'm ok with that.

How come these type of magnets are almost universally sold unmounted. It's a recipe for pain. At least they could tap a threaded mounting hole in it.

 

[Leros]

there is no soul? Then what is it that makes you alive? What is it that makes you distinctly you?

The little electrical signals in my brain make me alive. Cut off those electrical signals and I'm gone.

 

[Macamus Prime]

It is what processes and deals with what your body and mind are experiencing.

 

[Minerva]

It's a thick layer of rubber that makes your feet more comfortable when walking around.

 

[IronWing]

I found it!

 

[Minerva]

I found it!

Get on the train...

http://www.youtube.com/user/soultrain?blend=1&ob=4

 

[IronWing]

Get on the train...

http://www.youtube.com/user/soultrain?blend=1&ob=4

I always wondered why that show managed to stay on the air for so long. It just occurred to me that it probably only cost about a $100/episode to produce.

 

[Minerva]

Yeah I'd rather watch re-runs of I dream of genie instead. I do like the music though, it was before my time.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Life is nothing more than a complex series of chemical imbalances.

 

[IronWing]

Soul is what turns pig into bacon.

 

[Rudee]

The Soul is like the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. It doesn't exist. Santa Claus, However, is real dammit!!

 

[Ninjahedge]

/me looks at bottom of shoe.

Idunno.

 

[Minerva]

Kia makes some hearse looking thing too called a Soul...

 

[szechuanpork]

And if it is capable of interacting with the body so regularly, and so forcibly, why is it so consistently and utterly impossible to measure or quantify?

because immaterial substances are not things one can measure or quantify.

 

[BoomerD]

Soul? That's a city in South Korea...the capital city IIRC.

 

[sandorski]

because immaterial substances are not things one can measure or quantify.

...then how do you know it exists?

 

[SlitheryDee]

...then how do you know it exists?

Because he can't stand the thought of a world in which it doesn't, and because wishing makes things true. /sarcasm

 

[Jeff7]

How come these type of magnets are almost universally sold unmounted. It's a recipe for pain. At least they could tap a threaded mounting hole in it.

Don't know.
Don't care.
Do want.


I have a smaller magnet that's rated for about 85lbs pull. It's maybe 1x2x1/4". It's just ridiculously strong for something that size. It's also interesting to see firsthand how strong magnets interact with aluminum.

(There are neodymium magnets that have countersunk holes in them, though they're usually rather small.

These magnets are sintered, and quite brittle, so threading wouldn't hold up too well.)

because immaterial substances are not things one can measure or quantify.

Then it also would be unable to have any effect on us.

 

[szechuanpork]

Then it also would be unable to have any effect on us.

i would argue that unmeasurable or unquantifiable things can have an effect on us. the soul is a perfect example of this :sneaky:

 

[pcgeek11]

It's the only Reasonable explanation.

It is one of numerous explanations.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Merely an attempt to explain why we see things the way we see them. There is no "Soul", just some peoples(mostly from the distant past) inability to understand the concept of Consciousness.

Thats your opinion along with billions more and your entitled to it. But first things first the soul is flesh . We all carry a spirit within and I personnally know it to be fact . Can I prove it ? NO. Even if I could I wouldn't. That was The living words job . But Religion has pretty much destoyed those words while at the same time hiding the truth and the complete message. I would bet anything your stupid enough to believe when Alexanders library was burned you believe the scrolls were burned also . Thats so laughable that it Ironic. Have you never asked yourself why the swiss guard protects the pope. I bet you will say its because the swiss are neutral . They have been in the past. Cough ! This next war the swiss banks will be raped and plunder something that should have happened long ago.

Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance)[1] is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions. There is presently no accepted method for textually indicating irony, though an irony (punctuation) mark has been proposed.