What is a soul?

Loss of a limb does *not* equate to loss of mind!You seem to think dementia is just a loss of memory.Often personality changes occur. As will happen with brain injuries and stroke. We are talking about a fundamental change on who a person is - not just that they cannot remember where they last put the keys.loss of brain == loss of mind (and even changes in personality)For reading your posts you seem to imply that the ego/personality is some stable bedrock of existence and losing a limb represents a loss of functionality as does losing ones memory.In addition, chemical imbalances can cause dramatic changes in personality for the better or worse.How does that fit with your concept of soul?What stage of ones life most accurately represents the soul? Edited by iceage, : No reason given.

The case of Phineas Gage is very well known.Phineas Gage - WikipediaAfter his accident Gage became

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"fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operations, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible. A child in his intellectual capacity and manifestations, he has the animal passions of a strong man. Previous to his injury, although untrained in the schools, he possessed a well-balanced mind, and was looked upon by those who knew him as a shrewd, smart businessman, very energetic and persistent in executing all his plans of operation. In this regard his mind was radically changed, so decidedly that his friends and acquaintances said he was 'no longer Gage'.

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There is plenty of evidence, just research Traumatic Brain Injury or dementia. We are not talking about guesses, but hard clinical facts. These changes are not just a loss of capability (ie inability to walk, or remember things) but a profound change in the personality of the person involved. Ask someone who works in a Nursing Home. The entire event changes and sometime dramatically before dying. How this "fits just fine" with the concept of a baseline soul you have not explained.Anybody else?Edited by iceage, : No reason given.

I am very sorry about your Father, 2ice.I did not mean for this conversation to get personal.Edited by iceage, : No reason given.