Q&A: The Soul and Unconsciousness
The Soul and Unconsciousness
Question
If I accept the assumptions that:
1. My soul is my consciousness, or at least part of it.
2. It is eternal, or at least exists while I am alive.
If so, doesn’t reality contradict these assumptions?
After all, when a person is asleep, or unconscious, he apparently feels nothing. But if we accept the two assumptions, it would follow that the same person ought to experience some kind of consciousness, stemming from the existence of the soul?
Answer
Indeed, assumption 1 is nonsense. It is not only contradicted by the facts; it is simply meaningless. A soul is a noun and consciousness is a function. At most, you can say that consciousness is a function of the soul. But that is not contradicted by any fact.
Assumption 2 is not related to the issue at all. Why complicate simple things?!
Discussion on Answer
I don’t know who connects those two things. Even if we assume they are connected, there is indeed no necessity that there will be consciousness. So what? I’ll remain after death asleep.
This discussion is bizarre. All kinds of strange assumptions and conclusions that do not follow from them. N
Let me ask the question from a different angle:
Life after death is usually connected to consciousness after death. But if the very existence of the soul does not necessarily lead to consciousness, then the soul’s survival after the destruction of the body would also not necessarily create consciousness?