slang
05-05-2010, 04:46 PM
Throughout my life my idea of what a soul is has changed kind of dramatically. At the moment I'm not completely sure about the possibility of an after-life. But i imagine that if a soul did exist, we would one day be able to understand how it functions scientifically.
I've heard of experiments to detect reactions in blood samples caused by emotional changes in the doner. Apparently the blood reacted even when seperated by large distance and observed in a different building to the doner. There have also been accounts of a transferrance of behaviour and memories after organ transplants. I may be wrong but I recall certain eastern teachings about reincarnation stating that a soul or 'attman' usually incarnates bodies from a specific blood line. Meaning that your next body would most likely be the offspring of you or one of your blood relatives.
What these things all suggest to me, is that while a soul doesn't physically exist anywhere in the body, it's connection to our body seems to be localized in the blood. Or more specifically, the DNA. Within every strand of dna there's a transmitter of sorts hosting a connection to a soul which exists in some intangible location. That is why the dna in my blood will react to my emotions after being removed from my body, until the cells die. Maybe the soul is nothing like a single white ghost in the shape of our bodies... maybe it can be split and divided so as to exist in multiple locations at once.
When a person receives an organ transplant and suddenly inherits the donors smoking addiction or passion for painting, could this infact be because there are two souls- two dna types functioning within one body?
On the subject of clones, I've often heard people say things like 'a clone has no soul because it wasn't naturally concieved'. But you can cut off part of a plant and grow a whole one from that part naturally and that's a clone. I imagine what ever life force existed in the doner plant, probably continues to exist in the clone. Human identical twins were at one stage a single embryo. During gestation the embryo split and formed two whole bodies. When a human clone is created we are just artificially repeating this process with someone already born. I propose that a clone, assuming it has identical dna to its doner would share the same soul. The DNA and the soul are one. Two seperate bodies and minds can be animated by the same life force. Would this also mean that identical twins are infact a single soul? Who knows... I'm not sure if that idea would offend people. But this is a concept I haven't heard before, that one soul can exist in two bodies and two souls can exist in one body.
If afterall we are souls inhabiting bodies, then there really is no death and the body is just a vehicle. It would be likely that a technologically superior race (say an alien) would eventually find a way to create a line of communication between the bodied and disembodied souls. A person in this society could retain their identity and estate after their death, picking up where they left off when they next reincarnate. Next they'd have machines that allow disembodied souls to incarnate engineered bodies of their choice. The society would become a race of eternal ghosts, continuously inhabiting designer bodies. They would have no fear of death, but life would seem less precious to them.
Thoughts?
I've heard of experiments to detect reactions in blood samples caused by emotional changes in the doner. Apparently the blood reacted even when seperated by large distance and observed in a different building to the doner. There have also been accounts of a transferrance of behaviour and memories after organ transplants. I may be wrong but I recall certain eastern teachings about reincarnation stating that a soul or 'attman' usually incarnates bodies from a specific blood line. Meaning that your next body would most likely be the offspring of you or one of your blood relatives.
What these things all suggest to me, is that while a soul doesn't physically exist anywhere in the body, it's connection to our body seems to be localized in the blood. Or more specifically, the DNA. Within every strand of dna there's a transmitter of sorts hosting a connection to a soul which exists in some intangible location. That is why the dna in my blood will react to my emotions after being removed from my body, until the cells die. Maybe the soul is nothing like a single white ghost in the shape of our bodies... maybe it can be split and divided so as to exist in multiple locations at once.
When a person receives an organ transplant and suddenly inherits the donors smoking addiction or passion for painting, could this infact be because there are two souls- two dna types functioning within one body?
On the subject of clones, I've often heard people say things like 'a clone has no soul because it wasn't naturally concieved'. But you can cut off part of a plant and grow a whole one from that part naturally and that's a clone. I imagine what ever life force existed in the doner plant, probably continues to exist in the clone. Human identical twins were at one stage a single embryo. During gestation the embryo split and formed two whole bodies. When a human clone is created we are just artificially repeating this process with someone already born. I propose that a clone, assuming it has identical dna to its doner would share the same soul. The DNA and the soul are one. Two seperate bodies and minds can be animated by the same life force. Would this also mean that identical twins are infact a single soul? Who knows... I'm not sure if that idea would offend people. But this is a concept I haven't heard before, that one soul can exist in two bodies and two souls can exist in one body.
If afterall we are souls inhabiting bodies, then there really is no death and the body is just a vehicle. It would be likely that a technologically superior race (say an alien) would eventually find a way to create a line of communication between the bodied and disembodied souls. A person in this society could retain their identity and estate after their death, picking up where they left off when they next reincarnate. Next they'd have machines that allow disembodied souls to incarnate engineered bodies of their choice. The society would become a race of eternal ghosts, continuously inhabiting designer bodies. They would have no fear of death, but life would seem less precious to them.
Thoughts?