02-09-2010, 08:21 PM
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Avalon Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,659
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Re: The ego what is it? How to transcend?
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Originally Posted by trainedobserver
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Sounds like a unprovable hypothesis. Contrary to folk belief there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a soul, spirit, or any ethereal component in a human being. The whole 21 gram thing is nonsense. Logic would dictate that if a soul or spirit existed there would no need for the brain. In all myth and legend the soul contains the personality, memory, and so forth of a human being. These things have been proven to be the domain of the brain. When the brain is physically altered the personality and memory of an individual is altered. I cannot personally justify such a belief.
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Would you like to run that by the right side of your processor? 
peace,
Gnosis
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