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Do you believe the that you have a soul? (feddit.nu)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And do believe that I, this random guy on the internet has a soul

I personally don't believe that I anyone else has a soul. From my standup I don't se any reason to believe that our consciousness and our so called "soul" would be any more then something our brain is making up.

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[–] LopensLeftArm 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Oh man, it's been a minute since my college philosophy classes! Let me poke around and see if I can find what his major works are again.

Edit: I believe it was in his Principles of Human Knowledge and his Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. Wikipedia also mentions a work called An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, but I don't recall having read anything from that one.

[–] sentient_loom 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks!