Any psychological/psychiatric/philosophical attempt to understand the soul
is doom to failure from the onset.
Let says you're a hardware/ASIC/Electronics/IC engineer who designed the
Pentuim chip. Without understanding of the software, can you discern the
operation of a PC from your understanding of the
hardware/Chips/IC/CPU/GPU/etc? At best, you understanding would be severely
incomplete and faulty. Software is the intangible thing that controls the
behavior of the computer. Software controls the hardware.
On the same token, experts in
Psychology/Psychiatry/Philosophy/Sociology/Humanism/etc, can never hope to
completely understand the Human Soul. It is that intangible entity - the
soul, that controls the hardware consisting of your brain cells/neurons,
etc. The Software soul is what needs to be understood for us to understand
the behavior of man. You need to study the soul, not the brain. The brain
is simply a mechanism that the soul controls much like the CPU chip is the
mechanism that MS Windows controls. The analogy is apt and accurate.
Hence, one is wasting their time trying to study all the ideas of these
philosophers/psychologists/psychiatrists/etc. They are at best severely
incomplete, at worst gravely misleading.
If you want to understand the spiritual soul, go to the one who wrote the
software soul. Study his book - the Bible to have a better understanding of
human behavior.
Jojo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Blanton" <hohlr...@gmail.com>
To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Quantum Soul?
I think Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff have the best explanation of
consciousness to date. It's called Orchestrated Objective Reduction,
or Orch-OR. The two actually developed the idea separately, Sir
Penrose being a physicist and Hameroff being a physician who
specialized in anesthesia and cancer research. Roger was seeking a
model of the brain that did not require computation. Hameroff wanted
to know how anesthesia worked and where the conscious went when under.
Penrose theorizes that spacetime is granular at the size of the
Planck length and that quantum superposition is linked to the
curvature. Orchestrated Reduction is the collapse of the
superposition.
Hameroff brought in the neuron microtubles which provide the
structure. He sees a synchronous oscillation in neural MT can
influence other neurons. Together they see these electrons as a sea
embedded in the geometry of spacetime.
Needless to say, they have many critics. :-)
