Wow we have goten far away from the soul discussion.
Nevermind here is some stuff about thoughts.
I am an IT Student and a friend of mine is makin a final exam about neurally (/neuronural) Nets .
To keep it simple, these are Nets that are builded out of knots. Each Knot can only contain 1 state choosen from 2 (yes/no;0/1).
If you however train these nets, to give you an answer or a decision to a question, you can monitor how the net evolves.
By training i mean to input some information, then ask something about it, and to give feedback to the net if the answer was correct.
With this method you can build nets, that will give you correct answers to questions like "Is this black or white" for example.
You can now put more of these nets together to make a new structure that can decide even more, by using the presets of the implemented nets. This new structer will also evolve with every question.
So let us asume this could represant a human brain. It would have learnd all the information that we learn in our childhood, thru experience, whatever.
As a sidenote i like to mention, that there are scientist that believe, if they measure brainwaves long and detailed enough, and the measured person tells them everytime what he thinks, they could determin what he is thinking just by the results of scanning which part of the brain is activated. Similar to the example of the connected nets, where every net has its specific function.
But we know defenetly, that this neurally (/neuronural) nets don't have thoughts like we know them. So what are they missing asuming the net structures are equal to our brain?
Simple answer its the Cerebral cortex!
Most (if not all, i don't know for sure) animals are missing it, or haven't evolved it as much as humans.
So why is this Cerebral cortex so important. Because the results that our "Net/Brain" produces when we are stimulated by an attraction, is somewhat bounced back by it.
It's like there is another net, controlling the results of the first one.
Is this true; what else do i know; connect the results with my experience .... much much more.
The Cerebral cortex is somewhat supervising the results the rest of the brain is producing. Not all of them, not all the time, like you don't need to concentrate on breathing to do it all the time. So there are some things that are totaly controled by our brain and we are unaware of it, cause it is not producing this "voice" someone spoke of, that we hear in our brain while thinking. Simply because it is not "reflected" by our Cerebral cortex.
So thoughts are basicly the interaction part between our 2 nets. Lets call them the momory part of the brain and the Cerebral cortex both stimulated thru our senses.
You aren't convinced by this, i know.
You might say that this couldn't explain why you hear yourself speak in your mind.
Let me tell you one more thing, after following my post to this point:
Human thinking is affected much thru our usage of language.
When there has been no language at all, there were also thoughts. They just were not words, i think they could have been pictures and sounds. From that on sounds evolved to speech, thru the training of our "nets".
So i think, the idea of a soul, which another person described as been spread all over the world as the same, is originated in the way we think. The way we think determins the way we get aware of our consciousness. And our consciousness in nothing more then 2 parts of our brain arguing with one another stimulated by our senses and translated to speech by the part of the brain that contains the native language.
Since this post is not in my native language, i can only hope i told you what i wanted to tell
(Posts in arcane are the most difficult ones
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