So apparently we have an eternal soul.
Great!
… What does this mean?
Would it even be possible for a soul to die? I suppose that depends on your definition of “soul”. Is a soul a soul in the sense of Descartes? Some floaty light thingy that interacts with our body through a specific point in our brain? Or are we merely biochemical processes forming what seems to be conciseness? Because those things, to my understanding could die. And a soul, by the biblical definition, is a thing that does not die.
Can the part of me that thinks die? Can the part of me that feels die?
Please don’t label me as a Neo-platonist, bear with me. What if the soul is the “form” of who we are. As in, it is the organization of materials or the recipe that brings about awareness.
So existence is like a cake. And the soul is like an index card that lists all the ingredients. I can take that index card with me anywhere and have the potential for a cake. You might say that the Descartian view would be saying that the cake itself is the soul and that the atheistic view would be that the eggs and flour and sugar would be the soul. But both of these things can be destroyed. But a recipe cannot be destroyed. As long as the rules that govern the universe that allow it to be so remain, then that recipe will always produce a cake.
Anyways these are just some things I have been thinking about. Any comments/ideas?
