I don't see how electrochemical reactions can produce a self and all its inner qualities. Matter and energy have no special qualities of self and consciousness.
The soul is physical but not material I would imagine. It's outside of observation. I am forced to appeal to something beyond the material. A particular arrangement of molecules does not result in consciousness is my bet.
The self is consistently the same and consistently present throughout life. Electrochemical reactions and properties are always changing.
I have no doubt that electrochemical reactions deeply affect our moods and perceptions. The brain tunes us into reality but it is probably not the self.
My bet is that there is a mental world of far different qualities then biological properties.
I am quite sure that the language that describes the soul is none so compatible with the language of biology. Yet the soul describes perfectly the kinds of things I experience.
Biology will never get to examine the intrinsic nature of a private thought. They are starkly different.
I am a self and there is nothing in biology that rises to meet the reality of a self.
Something extra is clearly going on.
"I dont see how" is not much of an argument about
how biochemistry works. You know that.
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Matter and energy have no special qualities of self
and consciousness.
Its five a.m. and I feel hardly conscious.
But really that is just an assertion of undefined facts not
in evidence. You dont know that, you cannot possibly know that.
Its the same as the old "vital force" idea about life, now
moved out a notch to "consciousness".
The soul is physical but not material I would imagine
That is a lot of imagining! Including that there is a soul
which that latter is definitely in the "facts not in evidence" dept!
The self is consistently the same and consistently present throughout life.
Huh. I'd not say that at all. I have changed a lot, and continue to.
Same body,but a lot of changes in mind and body.
Electrochemical reactions and properties are always changing.
Physical laws are about the most stable thing there is!
You make some more assertions of things that
so seem to you, but for which no info can be supplied.
Anyway, gotta get on with my day.