I am a believer in God, believer people have a soul that will live beyond this World.
Learning about anatomy and the brain makes the brain seem more like a circuit board. Inputs processed based upon current memories and training factors into Outputs. Nothing more. I know how to ideally reconcile the two? No. God allows gravity work, things usually fall, gets upsold to they always fall. God also allows Miracles. If Miracles are possible, like parting the red sea, then physics are a sometimes, not always reliable system. Miracles are not seen everyday, or even every 100, 500 years potentially. A system that works 99.99% of the time likes physics gets upsold to always works like that.
There is a bit of an iffy system that factors into all this. Computers and electricity makes things work in not always expected ways. Superconductors and magnets show that objects can levitate, all that factors into comprehension cannot always be seen with the eyes. A piece of metal or a magnet, shaped, colored and textured in the exact same way are likely unperceivably different by the naked eye, by normal inputs to the brain. Systems that can look identical, that can trick the mind into classification based upon known categories has the potential to amp less than sufficiently in this World.
Life and how the mind processes is based on perception and the idea that previous memories hold their values in sufficient ways. Also, the idea that perception is based upon sensors, and sensory input that has not changed. Imagine a nerve in the body goes out overnight, potential for changes that are perceived not always to be due to the environment. Perceived in a different way based upon memories that change over time, on environmental inputs that are processed in a different way over time is possible.
Theoretically part of a person’s brain could be kept alive while another part is left dead. Imagine a brain that has the hippocampus replaced. Same body, same system, based upon different memories might be a possible system. Hippocampus and Prefrontal lobe connected to a circuit board (Decision making and Memory) like a slide on a microscope could be connected to computer systems that generate the electrical signals as if they were the occipital lobe, somatosensory lobe, cerebellum, pons, medulla, and midbrain. I can reconcile the idea with a soul ideally? No. Life is more than flesh. The same decision-making unit combined with the same memories sufficient to be the same person?
A mad scientist could connect to other brain systems of animals. Human decision making and memories but with an occipital lobe of a shark? Brain science likely has ethical decisions not always fully pondered. Humanization, Humanity appreciated as having a Soul factors into decisions around research ethics. Made in the image of God, humanization required matters, and is likely to be thrown to the wind for the sake of greater knowledge and throughput. Past has less than ideal track record to trust the present, future sufficiently with ideal research ethics amplified. Less than ideal research ethics potentially should be set to the norm, to the default. Proof living up to concepts does not guarantee the future will utilize gains and knowledge in ways that lives up to those concepts.
People wire electrical signals to animal brains on the common. The brain generates an idea upon seeing a cat that it is a good idea to pet the cat. The brain sends a motor command that causes a limb to pet the cat. The cat perceives touch and sensation of their fur and the signal is sent through axons to the sensory part of the cat’s brain. The cat and the person share a moment of electrical signals being generated.
People wire electrical signals to others brains on the common. The brain of a musician generates an idea to play music because it is pleasurable to self and others to hear dissonance to resolution. The brain generates a motor command that factors into changes to a system that generates sound waves in the air that travel to the ear of the listener, that is then converted into electrical signals and chemical signals in the brain. The musician and audience share a moment of electrical signals being generated.
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