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vlyons

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36. Humans do not have "souls"

Reply to jimlup (Reply #35)

Sat Aug 3, 2019, 10:15 PM

Aug 2019

What we in the west call "soul," Asians call "mind." Clearly we have a mind, but you cannot find it. Western psychology and western neuroscience have a lot to say about how the mind works, and which parts of the brain and the neuro system do what. Then there is Buddhist psychology about how the mind works and different levels of consciousness at which the mind operates. I prefer to leave soul as a poetic concept.

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