Does Modern Neuroscience Disprove the Existence of the Soul? | Dr. Paul LaPenna

[@Alkemisti]

Take a sip every time he says: 'Okay'.

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a lot of okays but great video, this is the way to solve this materialism impregnated in our culture

[@josethankachan3225]

Is it possible to include the video of this content too, coz its effective to watch than listen

[@pollovrhd]

Hi, could you please share with me a list of books to get introduced to St Thomas Aquinas? I'm loving hearing about him but I'd love to read some introductory material.

[@arielwertlen6709]

The Thomistic Institute has an online course, I imagine that is one of the best places to start.

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[@williammcenaney1331]

St. Thomas Aquinas believes each person is made up of a hum body and an immortal soul. So he says he's not his soul in his book "On Being and Essence." He also believes a disembodied, immortal human soul reasons, knows, and loves. That suggests he commits the mereological fallacy by concluding that a part of someone can do what he does. Corruptionists will tell you that you'll stop existing when you die. Survivalists believe that you'll be at least a partial person then. Corruptionism implies that after I die, a part of me will do what I do now, which sounds like the mereological fallacy. Survivalism also hints at that fallacy.

[@idorenyin-akpan]

Thomas avoids the merelogical fallacy. Thomas does not say the soul is "a part" of the human being. It is exactly what makes the human being what it is (it's substantial form). The reason Thomas says it is philosophically possible that soul survives is because, although it is always with the body (it's matter), it can sometimes act independently of it after it's conjunction with it. Hence, whereas nothing enters the mind without the sense, bodily organs, thought can be independent of the body. In this way, it seems possible that the soul can survive when the body corrupts.

[@williammcenaney1331]

@@idorenyin-akpan Thank you for refreshing my memories and correcting my mistake.

[@idorenyin-akpan]

@@williammcenaney1331 you are welcome!

[@williammcenaney1331]

@@idorenyin-akpan Thanks again. I'm always eager to learn from experts. My second degree is in philosophy, but I'm mostly a logician and a computer scientist.

[@idorenyin-akpan]

@@williammcenaney1331 that's great to know! I love logic and computer science too.

[@ThomisticInstituteatIU]

This was a fantastic event, and the Q&A he ran afterwards was very engaging. Thanks to Dr. LaPenna for speaking at IU!