Psychophysics
It is impossible to rigorously prove or substantiate the existence of a Soul, a psyche.
Numerous explanations have been hitherto offered:
That what we, humans, call a soul is the way that we experience the workings of our brain (introspection experienced). This often
leads to infinite regressions.
That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the same way as temperature, volume and
pressure are the epiphenomena of a large number of gas molecules).
That the soul does exist and that it is distinct from the body in substance (or lack of it), in form (or lack of it) and in the set of laws
that it obeys ("spiritual" rather than physical). The supporters of this camp say that correlation is not causation.
In other words, the electrochemical activity in the brain, which corresponds to mental phenomena does not mean that it IS the mental phenomena. Mental phenomena do have brain (hardware) correlates but these......
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