PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Molecular Machine, Paul Broca, Vocal Folds
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The soul: humans have within them something that is not physical it is spiritual. To pursue something scientifically one must first assume that the behaviour of that thing conforms to some sort of natural laws, laws that can eventually be understood, specified, and used to predict future behaviour. Souls are spiritual entities and, as such, they do not conform to natural laws. Given this, trying to understand them through a scientific process is pure folly. If you add a soul to something physical that is not spiritual, science becomes irrelevant. If something can do whatever it wants in a miracle fashion then science is incapable of studying it. We live in this physical world surrounded by physical things but we are something special. Animism is the idea of attributing a soul to an inanimate object. The mentality before was that we were surrounded by souls all around and that we had to be in agreement with them.
