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Walking in the Paws of Others: Was It Love, Duty, or Sympathy That Motivated This Dog?
Or am I anthropomorphizing? — If the dog’s behavior was not triggered by a conscious impulse to love, duty, or sympathy, why did the dog cross the road? I wonder if the dogs were even related. Can a dog have … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropomorphism, consciousness, dogs, duty, evolutionary psychology, instinct, Keats, love, negative capability, soul, sympathy
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The self-made soul? Do you make a soul as an author makes a novel, one moment of awareness at a time?
I’m not sure what, exactly, the soul is (“I am that I am?”), but I do think I’m closing in, at least for myself, on what the soul does. Here’s the theory I’m working with. Please help me refine it if you think I’m missing something … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Buddhism, consciousness, dualism, God, meaning, mind, mind and body, soul
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She was an Atheist. And Angry. Then She Found Herself Out of Her Body!
I like her intensity and articulateness. She seems to be a wise person and to know something:
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Tagged atheism, atheist, body, clarity, death, life, near death experience, religion, soul
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Is Neuroscience Closing in on the Soul—Literally?
See here and here for reflections on whether or not there is still room for a ghost in the machine. Money quote from neuroscientist Martha Farah: Brain imaging indicates that all of these traits have physical correlates in brain function. Furthermore, … Continue reading
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Tagged brain, Charles Darwin, evolution, ghosts, Jesus, life, mind, neuroscience, philosophy, religion, science, soul
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Jacob and the angel–or Enkidu and Gilgamesh
The Gilgamesh Epic embodies the tensions between order and wildness, not in the gods Apollo and Dionysus, as Nietzsche claims that the ancient Greeks do, but in the god-like characters of Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Gilgamesh is a city-dwelling ruler of a … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Greeks, Apollo, Bible, Blake, city, Dionysus, existentialism, Genesis, Gilgamesh Epic, God, Jacob, Jacob wrestles the angel, literature, myth, nature, Nietzsche, Norton Anthology of World Literature, poetry, religion, Sarah Lowall, soul, symbol, William Blake
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