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Beyond Identity

1. The document discusses the scientific basis for the existence of the soul. 2. It provides examples of people who retained their essential personality and character despite significant brain damage or memory loss. 3. While the soul is challenging to prove scientifically due to the subjective nature of human experience and perception, aspects like each person's unique personality, sense of self beyond physical traits, and subjective experiences provide some scientific foundation for the existence of the soul.

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Beyond Identity

1. The document discusses the scientific basis for the existence of the soul. 2. It provides examples of people who retained their essential personality and character despite significant brain damage or memory loss. 3. While the soul is challenging to prove scientifically due to the subjective nature of human experience and perception, aspects like each person's unique personality, sense of self beyond physical traits, and subjective experiences provide some scientific foundation for the existence of the soul.

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Roldan, Daniela M.

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Identity

I. Scientific basis for the soul.


A. Each unique personality a person has he feeling and identity of the self
beyond age and our inevitable subjective experience as an individual
comprise a scientific foundation for the soul.
B. Despite neuroplasticity, or the constant shift in the links between our brain
cells, we remain essentially the same personality.

II. No matter what happens to our brain, we still retain the essence of our
personality.
A. According to scientific American: In his book The Perpetual Now:
1. Science journalist Michael Lemonick tells the story of Lonni Sue, a
commercial artist who suffered brain damage as a result of a viral
infection.
2. She was left unable to recall her past or to form new memories.
3. Once he got to know Lonni Sue, as well as people who knew her
before and after her injury, Lemonick discovered that she had not
been destroyed.
4. Lonnie Sue was still the same.
a. She was still cheerful in a way that made people around
her feel better.
b. She was still creative and playful, drawing pictures
crammed with visual and verbal puns.

B. Despite memory loss, the soul of a person can be identified through one's
consciousness.
1. We have a sense that we are not a certain age-as our sense of self
usually leans less on age and rather on our subjective feeling of
who we are in essence.
2. Author Cate Montana explains: Yes, my body is definitely older. But
"I" am not.
a. The essence that I call my “self” has not aged a day.
b. At some point every human being on the planet looks in
the mirror and says, "I can't believe I'm 42 (or 62 or 74 or
87 or...). I am the exact same person on the inside.
c. Often, behaviorally, people see their character as eternal
rather than bound by age.

III. The soul of a person is incredibly challenging to prove scientifically.

A. Despite humans being very, very similar to each other in DNA and overall
composition, our perception of reality is vastly different from individual to
individual
B. According to Psychology Today
1. We have a subjective experience that remains mysterious.
2. The problem of the soul lies exactly here, in understanding the
nature of the self.
3. Although the current scientific paradigm is based on the belief that
the world has an objective observer-independent existence, real
experiments suggest just the opposite.

C. However, with each person's personality being unique, the behavioral


quality of thinking of the self beyond age, and our inevitable subjective
experience, we can say that the soul has some basis in science. These
realities of our behavior, character, and perception might not be tested
stringently, but they are very difficult to deny.

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