Read up on your Aquinas.
The problem is that you’re making the presumption that angels “think” in the way that humans “think”. When you do that, you place a requirement on angelic nature that doesn’t hold up to reason.
Think of an electromagnetic pulse which carry information. This pulse is made of electromagnetic field and has a very specific form otherwise it could be different from other pulse meaning that it cannot carry information. There are tons of example around you in all case information that you receive or produce has very specific form.
I can really read up that as I don’t have enough time. Could you please elaborate or at least give a reference to the page?Read up on your Aquinas.
Angels don’t “ratiocinate”, which – as you point out – requires a physical body
That I understand but you cannot resolve the problem by saying that they are different from us. You need to give a specific method in which they could think.The problem is that you’re making the presumption that angels “think” in the way that humans “think”. When you do that, you place a requirement on angelic nature that doesn’t hold up to reason.
How do they think if they don’t think like human?
I know that Angels are non-corporal beings. I have problem understanding how they could possibly think. Could you please elaborate instead referring me to books?
Information doesn’t have a physical form.
Physical or nonphysical, it has form otherwise we couldn’t distinguish between different infromations.
What else?
The word bird has to have form also otherwise we couldn’t distinguish it from word human.Don’t confuse a representation of information with what it actually represents. A bird is a thing that exists in the physical world. But, the word bird is only a representation of it, not the thing itself. There is no required physical form of a representation of a bird like the word bird. But, there is a physical form of the bird itself. In this case the bird is not the word.
How something which is not made of anything can possibly have a form?
I don’t think that Angels don’t have any sensory system. How they could possibly interact with each other?
I don’t believe that Animals have no intellectual power. Here is an article in this regard.
Funny! :clapping:In this case the bird is not the word.
I have a couple of objection to content of this talk: (1) Angels can read our mind and heart, how otherwise could know what we are thinking when there is no mode of communication? (based on my experiences they could read our minds in advance) (2) They need to think even if they have knowledge of everything, how they could act in a specific occasion without thinking?
Of course, Angels do think like Human. How otherwise they could make a choice?
How do you understand otherwise? Could you please elaborate?
Of course. That is true because intellect is related to neurobiological processes. A person goes to vegetative state once enough damage is made to a part of brain.
So you mean that there is no purpose for brainwaves?
Of course they made intellect. What is the purpose of them otherwise?