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R.C. Christian wrote

OmegaKV wrote

Personality is a different concept than the soul. The soul at its most basic is just experience. It may or may not influence personality, and the personality may or not influence the soul. I tend to think they do influence each other but it is a separate discussion.

No true Scotsman. Going by the above, the soul is a mystical entity that is in connection with many known things but is separate from each one of them, so any discussion that attempts to argue its non-discreteness fails, because none of those known things contain any part of soul.

If you read my original post I used the word "soul" in the most basic sense. Whether there is feedback from the soul to the brain is irrelevant to my original point.

R.C. Christian wrote

OmegaKV wrote

Personality is a different concept than the soul. The soul at its most basic is just experience.

We won't attempt to test how your experience changes by causing brain damage to you, but did you feel and think the same you do now when you were just 3 years old, was your perception and experience the same as it is now?

I can't be certain how I experienced things when I was 3 because I cannot relive when I was 3. To remember things is just to replay what is stored in your brain, and there might not be feedback from the soul to the brain, so memories might not be affected by the soul.

R.C. Christian wrote

When your body is sick or tired, do you feel and think the same as when you are fresh and healthy, does your experience remain the same in all cases?

No because the inputs the soul receives are first filtered through the brain. so if the brain is tired this will affect the soul's experience.