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Has anyone else read Sean Carroll's guest blog post at Scientific American on http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=physics-and-the-immortality-of-the-2011-05-23
Please read the link above so that we are all talking about the same thing.
If I understand his post well enough, he argues that if there is a soul, then it must interact with normal matter in some way within the paradigm of physics. Using the language of QFT, how exactly would the soul particles and soul forces interact with normal matter? Why haven't we seen these interactions?
A question not raised by Carroll, but which occurred to me was: let's say there is some rational reason we have not seen these soul particles and forces yet. How exactly does your soul ONLY interact with your body? Why does your spirit only interact with the molecules in your body?
Thoughts and comments?
PS. I put this in philosophy since it seemed the most rational place for it. But if a mentor thinks of a better place, then please move it.
Please read the link above so that we are all talking about the same thing.
If I understand his post well enough, he argues that if there is a soul, then it must interact with normal matter in some way within the paradigm of physics. Using the language of QFT, how exactly would the soul particles and soul forces interact with normal matter? Why haven't we seen these interactions?
A question not raised by Carroll, but which occurred to me was: let's say there is some rational reason we have not seen these soul particles and forces yet. How exactly does your soul ONLY interact with your body? Why does your spirit only interact with the molecules in your body?
Thoughts and comments?
PS. I put this in philosophy since it seemed the most rational place for it. But if a mentor thinks of a better place, then please move it.
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