This article is about addiction and how to deal with it, but it spends considerable effort at discussing how arbitrary the perception of a "real me" is.
People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think
I think it connects quite nicely into the arbitrary nature of soul-beliefs.
Generally, I want to know how believers in the existence of a soul reconcile that belief with the neurological realities of people.
For instance, it is well known that a starving person becomes very irritable and loses self-control, usually losing those traits a short while after being fed. Does that mean that one's soul does not determine the behavior of hungry people? How does one decide what is caused by metaphysical factors and what is caused by environmental, biological and neurological factors?
People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction think
I think it connects quite nicely into the arbitrary nature of soul-beliefs.
Generally, I want to know how believers in the existence of a soul reconcile that belief with the neurological realities of people.
For instance, it is well known that a starving person becomes very irritable and loses self-control, usually losing those traits a short while after being fed. Does that mean that one's soul does not determine the behavior of hungry people? How does one decide what is caused by metaphysical factors and what is caused by environmental, biological and neurological factors?