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The soul is intimately linked to our common beliefs of life after death. For the vast majority of religions, it is the soul that travels to the afterlife once the physical body dies. |
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Because such an idea implies the soul as having some physical properties in order to be a "thing" that then "travels" to some other dimension, religions and philosophers have tried numerous times throughout history to try and "prove" the physical existence of soul. |
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The problem of boundary crossing arguments |
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For all the searching, for all the travels, not one philospher no scientists has yet been able to prove the physical existence of the human soul, even though over 90% of the living population believe they each have one. |
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Yet what is even more difficult to prove is not just the "location" of the human soul, but how something physical can become 'ethereal', or vice-versa. |
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You see, the argument that the soul somehow travels to heaven after death, implies something physically existing and the crossing the boundary of real-not real to become ethereal. Not only does this defy every known law in the universe, it also implies a weakness in the inherent design of the universe where its conservation (everything existing) is somehow compromised, for the theoretical elements from which a soul must be made (if it is physical) would somehow vanish from the total set of existing matter. |
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Given the universe shows no sign of fatal accelerating flaws of such magnitude, it means only one of two things scientifically: (1 ) either the soul does not exists, or (2) some other process is happening of which we do not yet understand. |
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The telephone and "virtual" communication |
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No person who lives in a modern city would see the humble telephone as an amazing and enlightened invention that defies the known laws of physics. That is because the phone has been around forover one hundred years and the shock and awe of its invention and roll-out has already happened many years ago. |
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Yet the telephone offers and excellent example of one possible answer to the question of the human soul and afterlife. It is an argument which Plato himself sought to explain concerning the soul over 2,400 years ago. |
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You can be connected on the phone all the time (in the case of new wireless devices which provide always on email). But you can also be disconnected, or speak for only a short time. Also, sometimes because of a storm or problem, a connection is temporarily or permanently damaged. |
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Now there is nothing in the universe that prevents something ethereal being connected to something real (just like a telephone) - a parallel "you" which is actually already immortal- but grounded and connected in an "always-on" position when you have a physical body. |
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When you die, the phone is permanently disconnected between body and "soul". The soul doesn't actually travel from real to ethereal- it just changes its connection route and methods. |
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Afterlife