Nature of the soul after death?

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I don’t know if the experience of a qualia is a power of the soul, though. I would think most animals experience colors and sounds and other perceptions in the way we do. I imagine the soul can understand “redness” and such, which it previously experienced as a qualia, and can grasp it as a universal, but can it alone come up with a mental image of a red field (on its own)? I’m not ruling it out, but I’m not certain.
 
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Maybe I’m just asking the wrong kind of question. It could be that our souls way of “experiencing” could go beyond qualia, at least that’s what I get when I read Aquinas. But I’m not certain of my interpretation here.
 
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STT said:
You probably need another sort of body to experience a distinct qualia.
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I don’t mean distinct in that sense, I mean it in the sense of, do we have a higher or lower “order” of it?
 
The problem with dreaming as an example is that dreaming requires the services of a live human head. “The separated soul” would have no head to dream with.

However, not to worry. Time is physical; therefore the “isolated soul” could not have operations or experience time, as waiting for the body, or otherwise.

ICXX NIKA
 
The fact that the brain produces dream is scientific.

Show me the paper.
 
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Perhaps the brain is the carrier only. Provides the network how dreams are being processed. Bible says God communicate to people via dreams. So there is a pathway of sorts. Possibly dreams are the way the soul talks to the body. Because we have impossible dreams, dreams of stuff that one did not have access to.
 
A soul in heaven will be united with God. God perceives all things and is not limited by senses to do it. Will we share in that facility? I think we will, to the extent we can comprehend it. So, will we be able to 'see" ultraviolet light? I think we will, because we’ll no longer be dependent on our body’s capacity to perceive light. I think we’ll know as much as we know now, and much more, but in a way so different we cannot presently imagine it.
 
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And how do we know this?
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We know very little about the spiritual world, including what I posted.

There is a logic to it, however, if one believes in God; that God is infinite and loving, and that we’ll be united to Him. Does it make sense that God would unite us to Him and share nothing of His nature and faculties?

No. It makes more sense to think that He will do exactly that. What little we might imagine of it is what our own imaginations can do. They can take us outside our world and into a universe, most of which we’ll never see in this lifetime. We can imagine seeing ultraviolet light, even though we can’t with our present bodies. We can understand with mathematics something we’ll never perceive with our senses. Our minds are bigger than our senses.

Will He disappoint our yearning to know? Personally, I don’t think it logical to imagine that he will.
 
I always wondered why the spiritual soul can not become a formidable opposition to evil spirits. I would guess that the opposition component, that is, the property that forms the actual barrier to the other spirit is lacking in the soul. Just to clarify, lets say the barrier of the soul throws up whatever to defend itself against the opposite attack of the evil spirit. It may be that there are grades of function in spirits.

But we know the soul can animate matter and spirits have hierarchies.
 
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Howard storm has a NDE on utube. That describes what happens with your soul. And people who have experience being translated out of their body it is represented as accurate
 
It is proof of research, not of the findings.

Dreams are not directly measurable.
Claiming we know where they come from and what is causing them is folly.
 
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