Of souls, selves, and cerebrums: a reply to Himma

Beckwith, Francis J.

doi:10.1136/jme.2004.006650

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“…This is the view of Peter Kreeft,2 and of many other Catholic philosophers, including Francis Beckwith,3 John Haldane,4 5 Stephen D Schwartz,6 and also of some non-Catholic philosophers, most notably J P Moreland, and Scott B Rae 7…”

Section: Thinking Philosophically About Abortion: Some Initial Argumentsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Philosophy, critical thinking and ‘after-birth abortion: why should the baby live?’

Tooley¹

2013

J Med Ethics

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Section: Thinking Philosophically About Abortion: Some Initial Argumentsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Philosophy, critical thinking and ‘after-birth abortion: why should the baby live?’

Tooley¹

2013

J Med Ethics

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“…Mental functions are powers that the soul has exercised by means of the physical entity called the brain [29]. A question is raised: "How is it possible for an immaterial substance to interact with a physical body?"…”

Section: Soul Must Have Materials Componentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A question is raised: "How is it possible for an immaterial substance to interact with a physical body?" [29]. No experimental data can be sufficient to bring us to the recognition of a soul, but there must be a substance as the basis of personal identity, for without spaceoccupying substance, there would be no way to account for the soul's ability to interact with the body [30,31].…”

Section: Soul Must Have Materials Componentmentioning

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Cosmological dark matter and ensoulment

Irmak¹

2013

J Exp Integr Med

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Allocortical structures such as hippocampal formation and amygdala are involved in the emotions and memory, and regarded as the seat of personhood. Human body is a composite of a biological organism and an intellective soul. It was suggested that cerebral allocortex is the main region harboring the soul and the beginning of a human person as an individual living organism is at the 13 th week of development when an adult type allocortex is already formed. No experimental data can be sufficient to bring us to the recognition of a soul, but there must be a substance as the basis of personal identity, for without space-occupying substance, there would be no way to account for the soul's ability to interact with the body. It was suggested that the soul substance consists of cosmological dark matter. The dark matter constitutes most of the mass in our universe, but its nature remains unknown. The soul is likely to work into man's physical body directly via that dark matter. We thought that while the soul has a material component as dark matter, there must be an open window to the brain for the entrance of the soul with dark matter. In this respect, vomeronasal organ which is found in the nasal cavity and which has connections with the brain only between the 12 th and 14 th weeks of human development-a period including the time of ensoulment at 13 th week-seems to be the most appropriate window through which the soul and dark matter can enter the brain.

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“…El concepto de animación u organización es descartado porque vimos que no hay interrupción de la animación ni de la organización vital en el paso ovocito-cigoto-embrión. Persona no es un concepto científico sometible a prueba factual y tiene tal diversidad ideológica-cultural que es imposible poner de acuerdo a sus proponentes 8,[33][34][35][36] . Los griegos, etruscos y latinos lo usaron en el sentido de máscara en los dramas 37 , para los cristianos se desarrolló respecto de la Santísima Trinidad; para un materialista puede no existir; para hindúes y budistas los animales son personas y divinidades; en legislación la persona es sujeto de derecho.…”

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Sobre el origen ontogénico del ser humano: La solución científica

Valenzuela

2007

Rev. méd. Chile

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Every living being is the result of a genome-environment interaction. Neither human oocytes nor spermatozoids have human functional genomes, but the zygote that they constitute may have a human functional genome and other functional genomes such as those of the hydatidiform mole, polyploids, and non-human living beings. When the zygotic human functional genome is integrated and activated, the biotic humanity is acquired. This may occur when the paternal chromatin decondenses; the nuclear environment and envelope of both nuclei are changed to constitute pronuclei; the replacement of sperm protamines by histones; genome imprinting modifications; centriole duplication; and more importantly, the fourfold genome replication. Other propositions on the origin of humans are: embryo implantation [6-7 days post fertilization, (dpf)]; the appearance of the antero-posterior axis; the limit for monozygote twining (13dpf) and the appearance of the neural tissue (16dpf). They are refuted because some mammals do not implant; embryo axes are present in the zygote; some animals regenerate complete individuals from each part in which they are divided; plants do not have neural system; a human whose brain was destroyed by cancer continues to be a human. Alternative propositions coming from philosophies, theologies, perceptive knowledge, beliefs and intuitions and based on conceptualizations like person, anima, soul, organization, socio-cultural relations are ideologically or religiously biased and based on irreducible beliefs such as faith. They lead to disagreement rather than to agreement.

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Of souls, selves, and cerebrums: a reply to Himma

Cited by 38 publications

References 8 publications

Philosophy, critical thinking and ‘after-birth abortion: why should the baby live?’

Philosophy, critical thinking and ‘after-birth abortion: why should the baby live?’

Cosmological dark matter and ensoulment

Sobre el origen ontogénico del ser humano: La solución científica

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