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Originally posted by chrismicha77
I've always questioned whether or not we have a soul. I often times lay in bed and ponder this until the alarm clock goes off.
Last night I stumbled upon a senario where I truly questioned its existence. OKay so bear with me a moment and really try to look at this from every angle. So I was lying there thinking about Cryonics and how it might be possible to be frozen until a later date, when medical advancements, would make it possible to live forever. I'm not gonna go into the living forever bit, that's for another time.
I question the soNow lets say you're frozen in a suspended state of animation, where you are not dead, but technically not alive either. Here's where uls existence! Since you're not technically dead, then does the soul just stay put inside your body until it's revived at a later date? Since you're not technically alive, is the soul free to move about where it will, until it's sucked back into your body when your revived?
Hrmmmmm......
Then you have consciousness which supposedly originates in the brain. Since you're frozen and there is nothing functioning inside you, then consciousness would not exist, therefore, you technically do not exist.
Anyway, I'm steering away from the topic but you get what I'm saying, soul = consciousness and vise versa.
Does this make any sense or just to me?
Originally posted by IEtherianSoul9
reply to post by chrismicha77
Soul on ice
I understand what you're saying, but aren't you just unconscious when you're frozen in time? What I believe is these bodies are just vessels that an entity chooses to inhabit. At this point in time we have no technology that can detect a soul, sort of like how we had no idea dark matter existed. Your brain cells haven't died yet and your body hasn't deteriorated yet, so technically don't you still "exist".
Originally posted by chrismicha77
reply to post by Daedal
Ahhh....what a "paradox" indeed! Kinda like the cat in the box but substitute the cat with the soul and box with the body...nice!
Maybe your soul would just get tired of hanging around and move on?
Since you're not technically dead, then does the soul just stay put inside your body until it's revived at a later date? Since you're not technically alive, is the soul free to move about where it will, until it's sucked back into your body when your revived?