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Scientists Get Dangerously Close To Biblical Wisdom, Acknowledge The Human “Soul” Isn’t Confined To The Brain OR EVEN YOUR BODY
Scientists Get Dangerously Close To Biblical Wisdom, Acknowledge The Human “Soul” Isn’t Confined To The Brain OR EVEN YOUR BODY
You might wonder, at some point today, what’s going on in another person’s mind. You may compliment someone’s great mind, or say they are out of their mind. You may even try to expand or free your own mind. But what is a mind? Defining the concept is a surprisingly slippery task. The mind is the seat of consciousness, the essence of your being. Without a mind, you cannot be considered meaningfully alive. So what exactly, and where precisely, is it? Traditionally, scientists have tried to define the mind as the product of brain activity: The brain is the physical substance, and the mind is the conscious product of those firing neurons, according to the classic argument. But growing evidence shows that the mind goes far beyond the physical workings of your brain. (READ MORE)
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This is a subject that fascinates most of the population at some point or another wondered about the soul if there is a soul and so on.
 
You got your thread headline from SkywatchTV. They have sensationalized it and tried to make it biblical when the scientist didn't mean it that way. The title says "scientists", plural, when there is only one, Dan Seigal
who said,
“In our modern society we have this belief that mind is brain activity and this means the self, which comes from the mind, is separate and we don’t really belong. But we’re all part of each others’ lives. The mind is not just brain activity. When we realize it’s this relational process, there’s this huge shift in this sense of belonging.”

Dan Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He doesn't use the word, soul. That hardly sounds dangerously close to biblical wisdom.
 

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