Absence of identity after death and resurrection

[Bahman]

I am not sure if reflexive understanding meets your definition of information, but, per St. Thomas Aquinas, the intellectual memory uses the sentient portion of the soul to remember the temporal context of events but the passive intellect of the spiritual soul retains the reflexive understanding* of the act of understanding*. So upon death of the body, there remains that passive intellect with reflexive understanding.

I am not sure too. What is reflexive understanding?

 

[meltzerboy]

But soul is shapeless and cannot hold information which requires shape.

Do you believe in the existence of a soul? If you do, then it is probably capable of many things we cannot imagine, including holding information. If you don’t believe in its existence, then it is not even a question of all souls being alike.

 

[Vico]

I am not sure too. What is reflexive understanding?

Reflexive comes from Medieval Latin reflexīvus turned back, reflected.

The soul’s intelligence has an understanding of itself as a particular intellect and an understanding of a particular act of its own understanding that exists at a particular time.

 

[Bahman]

Do you believe in the existence of a soul?

I am not sure about it. So far I couldn’t find a system of belief that could present a good model for soul.

If you do, then it is probably capable of many things we cannot imagine, including holding information.

That is only a claim without any evidence. Information in human case is hold inside the brain. Our personality is lost upon brain injury or brain death. So it seems to me that everything is related to brain rather than soul.

If you don’t believe in its existence, then it is not even a question of all souls being alike.

What is your definition of soul and how it functions?

 

[Bahman]

Reflexive comes from Medieval Latin reflexīvus turned back, reflected.

The soul’s intelligence has an understanding of itself as a particular intellect and an understanding of a particular act of its own understanding that exists at a particular time.

To me soul cannot have any direct understanding of itself. Self awareness can only be achieved by a reflection from our actions.

 

[Vico]

To me soul cannot have any direct understanding of itself. Self awareness can only be achieved by a reflection from our actions.

In Aristotle’s theory of intellectual cognition there is an active intellect (nous poietikos) and a passive intellect (nous pathetikos). This was understood in different ways by the Scholastics and the Arabic philosophers. With Aquinas and the Scholastics, there is distinction from the faculty of sensuous cognition, but with Arabic philosophers panthiestically interpreted the passive intellect (nous poietikos) as the activity of the Divine intelligence. There are other views. These philosophical views clash.