If you start at a body's surface, and cut and dig deeper and deeper, every little phenomenon and object that you encounter is going to be engaged in performing a materialistic behaviour, whether it is electrical, or chemical, or physical. It is fair to say that no matter how small these systems and elements are, they will still be demonstrating materialistic behaviour which can be quantified. How can another separate body of a different nature exist within this mixture of tightly bonded materialistic parts and systems? How can there be something which is nothing?
One way to look at this misconception about the human nature is to think of the brain as a center of command in the body's "system" (which it basically is). However, it is also reasonable to assume that this center is not keeping in touch with each and every part of body at any given moment. In other words, there are no electrical correspondences going on among the different neural networks connecting the brain with various body parts. It is more like they are in a standby mode. Most of the times, they are at normal state. The increase and decrease in the chemical concentration of the liquids around the neurons causes them to generate electrical signals, and transmit them through the neural networks. As long as the level of the chemicals are at a normal level, their state does not change. It is as if they do not exist.
Feeling the "soul" inside the body can be a natural step in the progression of the human brain. The weightlessness caused by the non-functioning (or malfunctioning) neural networks and connections, which could put the brain in a state of falsely experiencing a mindframe, can be a contributing factor in the development of spirituality and the belief in metaphysical forms, shapes and entities within, and outside the human body throughout the history.
NOTE: Parts of the brain are indeed constantly in "touch" with certain body parts (the parts responsible for subconscious activities within the body), but the main state of the brain does not consciously keep track of, or register, those activities at any given moment. Hence, it is as if they do not exist or happen.
2 comments:
"As long as the level of the chemicals are at a normal level, their state does not change. It is as if they do not exist."
I'm not so sure it's as though they don't exist. A body at rest still exists; a concentration of chemicals at equilibrium still exists. I think you mean we're not consciously aware of them, which isn't exactly the same. Sensory input becomes "baseline;" as we learn not to constantly tense a muscle, that becomes an unconscious process, one that was deliberate and conscious as we learned it.
That is correct. What I meant was that we do not consciously keep track of said sensory information. So, one might think of it as if it does not exist. As a matter of fact, if one were to mathematically model the process, he would ignore the sensory information.
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