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The brain and soul are related through philosophical debates regarding consciousness, where the brain is viewed by materialists as the physical site of mental processes [1], while the existence of a soul is rejected by those who equate the mind solely with the brain [2].
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Dualism, Physicalism, and Philosophy of Mind - Capturing Christianity capturingchristianity.com 1 fact
quoteAlexander Rosenberg states: “if the mind is the brain (and scientism can’t allow that it is anything else)… we have to stop taking our selves seriously… We have to realize that there is no self, soul or enduring agent, no subject of the first-person pronoun, tracking its interior life while it also tracks much of what is going on around us. This self cannot be the whole body, or its brain, and there is no part of either that qualifies for being the self by way of numerical-identity over time. There seems to be only one way we make sense of the person whose identity endures over time and over bodily change. This way is by positing a concrete but non-spatial entity with a point of view somewhere behind the eyes and between the ears in the middle of our heads. Since physics has excluded the existence of anything concrete but nonspatial, and since physics fixes all the facts, we have to give up this last illusion consciousness foists on us.”
Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us 1 fact
claimMaterialists argue that while post-materialists can account for the hard problem of consciousness using an external immaterial substance like a soul or spirit, they fail to explain how this external consciousness is combined or decombined in the brain to create the phenomenal unity of subjective, first-person consciousness.