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Do I? How so?

How about we try this, a person is a physical body, that may have zero, one, or mare self's. This person, is the collection of physical things. A living person is that which has the ability to actually be alive in this reality. A nonliving person is still a person, however, they lack something that allows them to be alive.

A self is completely different from a person. If you are very interested in philosophy and the "self," find some books on epistemology, a lot of the earlier ones will have stuff on what the self is. Try reading Hume, Descartes, Scruton, also, try finding a course one epistemology. Trust me when I say you've come no where close to defining self. All you have defined is that which could be a physical body with a mental side. What is the "self," is it merely a collection of things such as thoughts, or is it something else? Remember, this has to work for both cases of whether this reality is a farce, or if it is "true."
That I know not. I am not the one making the definition, I left it up to you, if you want it, find a way to connect it logically. I see no reason, though as to why they can't be, but, surely you aren't implying they are the only things that make up awareness are you?

Again, a philosophy course would help here more than I can. But, I will try.

If I do not have access to a previous memory a, a will still exist, I just can not remember a, however, I may be able to remember a in the future. Whereas if I have no memory of a, that memory does not exist at all, and I will never remember it.


Yes it is simpler, but it is not right. Simple does not always mean right.

For example, if I want to learn, it is simpler to do nothing, and learn nothing, but, I am not doing what is right, because I want to learn, but I am not learning by doing nothing.

Is this to me?
Well, I'll answer it either way.
I think soul is just another word for "self."

Keep in mind just because feelings are connected with the brain, that does not mean that they are purely mental. The brain is a physical thing, which goes through physical processes. Now, can I really feel something physical with my mental side?


Isn't that what a [living] person is?Except that a [living] person has those, there is no chance they don't.

a will still exist in reality, but not to the person that can't remember it.
If a ceases to exist, then somehow exists again, then the person can still remember it in the future.
If I experience something, but cannot remember my experience of it, does it exist? Especially if only I was the one to experience that thing?

(And by that definition, all concious people have souls, but they may not be immortal.)
The soul or the concious person?

Have you ever noticed the difference between emotional and physical pain? Emotional pain, is what you feel with your mind, physical pain, is something that does not feel good physically, hence the physical.

I will tell you that I am not well versed in the area of the brain, I prefer my philosophy. I do not have an indepth comrehension of the brain.

Still, every action in the brain that makes you feel physical pain, is that which is controlled by some physical process. Physical pain is not a really a mental process as much as something such as emotional pain.

Let's say that I cut my finger, and I don't notice it; but when I look down, and see it, it starts to hurt. Now, why that happens I know not, but, I do know that I physically looked at, and after I recognized it, it hurt. So, maybe if you say, there is a mental part to recognizing physical pain, I would agree with you, but, to say that physical pain has some mental part is not entirely correct.

Why not? What stops it from being immortal? If the soul is purely mental, and if purely mental things have no physical ties (if they did, they would cease to be purely mental and become partly mental and partly physical), why do you assume the same rules for the physical world apply?

Well, it depends on what a "self" is (and like I said earlier, many philosophers hace tried, but few if any have defined, or even come close to defining, the "self"), and whether that thing has something to do with experience. It also depends on what experience means.

Evenstill, the brain is not purely a mental object, it has physical qualities, and a lot of the processes it does are physical processes, or at least are partly physical in their processes.
You've never cut yourself anywhere, and not noticed it, then when you look at where you got cut, you finally notice it, and it feels slightly unpleasent?
That doesn't absolve emotional pain, it just means, that you don't necessarily feel them like another person.

Well, as I have said before, we are not entirely sure of what "self's" are they could be entirely mental, or they could be partly mental, and partly physical, or they could be something completely different.

...Our thoughts aren't made of the impulses, they're caused by them.
The energy goes elsewhere in the physical world.

I think I'd be ready for it anyday... whee

Do not fear!

Any certain reasons for this? Or is really just something you "feel" is right, and cannot really explain it?

How could we make 'heaven' here?
How is it that people expecting heaven prevents this?