The fundamental non-material spiritual part of a person, without which a person cannot be a person. Christianity (and many other religions) states that a person consists of a soul and a body (dichotomy) or spirit, soul and body (trichotomy) – I adhere to this. For more details on Bishop Macarius ' Dogmatic Theology. For a better understanding, I can offer an analogy from the movie “The Matrix”. We live in a matrix / material world and our material bodies are machines. If the machine is destroyed, then the soul (in a rough sense, the soul is the person himself) is disconnected from the server. The soul disconnected from the server does not disappear, it continues to exist, but already beyond the material world and our mind.
For me, the soul is a metaphor for the totality of the best personal qualities in a person. However, there are expressions like “rotten soul”. Well, in such cases, this is a combination of bad qualities 🙂
I'll look at it from the point of view of a materialist tech guy. The soul is an informational entity that characterizes the so-called “continuity of being”. While you live, the information is constantly updated. Something is added, something is lost, or forgotten. When you die, you are completely lost.
Although, the universal entropy will remember you, but will not tell anyone.
But at the same time, in “parallel universes” you will stay alive (Google quantum suicide). So, in a sense, the soul is immortal, and the “afterlife” is just a parallel to our own.
Accordingly, you can be copied, written to a flash drive, and all that.
The fundamental non-material spiritual part of a person, without which a person cannot be a person.
Christianity (and many other religions) states that a person consists of a soul and a body (dichotomy) or spirit, soul and body (trichotomy) – I adhere to this. For more details on Bishop Macarius ' Dogmatic Theology.
For a better understanding, I can offer an analogy from the movie “The Matrix”. We live in a matrix / material world and our material bodies are machines. If the machine is destroyed, then the soul (in a rough sense, the soul is the person himself) is disconnected from the server. The soul disconnected from the server does not disappear, it continues to exist, but already beyond the material world and our mind.
For me, the soul is a metaphor for the totality of the best personal qualities in a person. However, there are expressions like “rotten soul”. Well, in such cases, this is a combination of bad qualities 🙂
I'll look at it from the point of view of a materialist tech guy. The soul is an informational entity that characterizes the so-called “continuity of being”. While you live, the information is constantly updated. Something is added, something is lost, or forgotten. When you die, you are completely lost.
Although, the universal entropy will remember you, but will not tell anyone.
But at the same time, in “parallel universes” you will stay alive (Google quantum suicide). So, in a sense, the soul is immortal, and the “afterlife” is just a parallel to our own.
Accordingly, you can be copied, written to a flash drive, and all that.