True, ultimately it is the fully-assembled human being who is judged, even if only the soul exists in an abeyance, until the spiritual body is raised.Soul is not functional without a body. So the soul alone cannot be judged.
I am arguing against hylomorphic dualism using what we observe. We know by fact , based on observation, that the process inside the brain causes many properties. These properties of course are gone upon death hence we are having a problem in judging the soul.You’re not discussing hylemorphic dualism or the Aristotlean-Thomist philosophy of the mind then, if those are the assumptions you’re starting with. The rational mind is necessarily an immaterial process in Thomism, and Thomists would disagree with any materialist that a purely material process could explain intentionality, and materialists have still not been able to appropriately address that challenge without going on to deny intentionality, consciousness, and the mind as non-existent.
Actually, the processes in the brain, all its processes, are triggered, moved, by something else, with no originality, no self-movement. The brain is a vehicle being driven, not a driver driving.I am arguing against hylomorphic dualism using what we observe. We know by fact , based on observation, that the process inside the brain causes many properties. These properties of course are gone upon death hence we are having a problem in judging the soul.
Thomism is about what we observe about reality, too. We haven’t discovered anything in neuroscience that refutes that the mind has immaterial processes, and Thomists maintain that such a discovery is an impossibility based on arguments of logic. No material process could explain intentionality.I am arguing against hylomorphic dualism using what we observe. We know by fact , based on observation, that the process inside the brain causes many properties. These properties of course are gone upon death hence we are having a problem in judging the soul.
What is the state of soul when we shout down the brain? We know that we cannot experience anything.Actually, the processes in the brain, all its processes, are triggered, moved, by something else, with no originality, no self-movement. The brain is a vehicle being driven, not a driver driving.
The ancient philosophers knew that the mind was immaterial (spiritual) and moved the brain, via the will commanding the passions driving the body, to have material thought that would be an image of the mind’s knowing and also would facilitate coming to know in the mind. All understanding is in the soul, and occasionally the soul moves the brain to have conscious thought of “I understand this” when it suits the soul that such understanding be materialized in manifestation of the self materially in the body. Our bodies, including our brains and living material thoughts, are momentary materialization of the soul manifesting its self understanding in objective being for others to interact with the self.
We know very well that any experience we have is related to specific activity inside our brain. This correlation is so strong that one can argue that what we call mind emerges from brain activity.Thomism is about what we observe about reality, too. We haven’t discovered anything in neuroscience that refutes that the mind has immaterial processes, and Thomists maintain that such a discovery is an impossibility based on arguments of logic. No material process could explain intentionality.
I am afraid that your analogy is not a good one. All known functions of the person stops when the brain stops to work. So what is left for soul when a person dies? Nothing.I’m wary about callling the mind the driver of the body. To me it conjures up an image of a spiritual ghost driving a body, and in that image it’s the ghost that’s the true human substance and the body is just a shell. The most prominent proponent of that was Rene Descartes. It is dualism, but in a different sense than how Aristotlean-Thomists mean it, in which the human substance is, when complete, properly both material and immaterial in one being.
Of course any experience we have in our lives is related to brain activity. Who has said otherwise? Please tell me how materialism explains intentionality and then we can talk.We know very well that any experience we have is related to specific activity inside our brain. This correlation is so strong that one can argue that what we call mind emerges from brain activity.
I am afraid that your analogy is not a good one. All known functions of the person stops when the brain stops to work. So what is left for soul when a person dies? Nothing.
Do you even physics bro?That is the brain which hold all information regarded to the person, This include the information about your identity and all events that you experienced. We also know that soul is the form of human, hylomorphic dualism. Christian also believed that any soul is judged upon death. Soul however cannot carry any information within, most importantly personality. The question is then how God could judged a blank soul?
What do you mean with intentionality?Of course any experience we have in our lives is related to brain activity. Who has said otherwise? Please tell me how materialism explains intentionality and then we can talk.
Yes, spirit can get the information needed. But what this has to do with our discussion?Do you even physics bro?
All said info is electroninc within the brain. Said electrical energy can not be destroyed. If we can everyday exctract from more thoroughly wiped computers what was there, do you not think that a spirit under command of God can get his info?