http://darwiniana.com/2010/05/08/soul-talk-and-positivistic-failure-mode/ History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:29:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://darwiniana.com/2010/05/08/soul-talk-and-positivistic-failure-mode/comment-page-1/#comment-349609 nemo Sun, 09 May 2010 18:23:28 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=44690#comment-349609 Current thought can't distinguish ideas of soul from the many differentiations that seem to be the reality. Fantasies about the soul are legion. But the 'bardo' state depicted in Buddhism suggests that the 'psyche' as we know it does not survive death, but that a deeper aspect of the 'person' does emerge as the psyche is stripped away. Current thought can’t distinguish ideas of soul from the many differentiations that seem to be the reality. Fantasies about the soul are legion. But the ‘bardo’ state depicted in Buddhism suggests that the ‘psyche’ as we know it does not survive death, but that a deeper aspect of the ‘person’ does emerge as the psyche is stripped away.

]]> http://darwiniana.com/2010/05/08/soul-talk-and-positivistic-failure-mode/comment-page-1/#comment-349608 nemo Sun, 09 May 2010 18:21:13 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=44690#comment-349608 That's true about Schopenhauer, perhaps, but we are not talking, in his terms, of soul at all: but of the noumenal roots of mind that pace the categories of perception projects the space-time matrix (right word, go see the movie, The Matrix). The term 'soul' is played out perhaps, but the basic issue remains. That’s true about Schopenhauer, perhaps, but we are not talking, in his terms, of soul at all: but of the noumenal roots of mind that pace the categories of perception projects the space-time matrix (right word, go see the movie, The Matrix).
The term ‘soul’ is played out perhaps, but the basic issue remains.

]]> http://darwiniana.com/2010/05/08/soul-talk-and-positivistic-failure-mode/comment-page-1/#comment-349599 Bob Sun, 09 May 2010 12:53:14 +0000 http://darwiniana.com/?p=44690#comment-349599 Soul talk is mostly garbage, and Schopenhauer didn't look like he believed in soul??? Soul talk is mostly garbage, and Schopenhauer didn’t look like he believed in soul???

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