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Is consciousness in the brain, or is the brain a receiver for the soul?
muftis as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingMind and body: Berkeley, Descartes, non-local consciousness and the soul as information
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth holds that consciousness is non-local and the brain a receiver like a radio; the guest disagrees, describing a human as matter plus information that is backed up in God's record and restored to a new body at the resurrection.
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Mufti Abu Layth asks about the guest's paper on Berkeley and Descartes. The guest outlines the positions: Descartes' dualism of body plus mind, Berkeley's idealism that everything is spirit and idea, and materialism that the soul is a function of the brain, with the problem for dualism of how a non-physical soul communicates with a body governed by physical law; he compares the materialist view to an MP3 player with everything inside, the idealist to a broadcast and dualism to a radio receiving an independent signal. Mufti says he has previously argued for non-local consciousness, that the ruh is non-local and the brain is like a radio or a phone picking up the signal. The guest disagrees, saying such talk has no meaning: a human is matter plus information, the ordered arrangement of elements into molecules, genes and organs, so that the whole exceeds the sum of its parts, like a computer whose hardware is the body and whose software is the uploaded knowledge; that information, our genetic makeup, habits, convictions and sins, is continuously backed up in God's record, and when the body dies God will create a new body and match the saved personality to it in another creation, while the dead are not conscious until then. Mufti closes the lengthy session, thanks the guest, and signs off.
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so just shortly your your piece on because this just occurred to me I want to ask before your piece on Berkeley and des cartes the two angles of a triangle what was the the the gist of of your your paper there well there are several the idea of who we are whether we are matter among body or mind or body plus mind if body plus mind is called dwellest dualism which is is associated
with that Kardashian it was the one most focused on the subject Berkeley believed that everything the essence is the spirit the soul the idea the idea ideal is because what happens all in our mind and the rest of it and some materialists believe that no the spirit the soul doesn't exist as independent entity it is the function of the brain brain is material things basically one is matter is the essence the other no the spirit the soul is the essence and of course
the third way is both of them or essence both need in order for a human being to exist and of course the problem is if this is a different essence and soul is metaphysical is not physical how they communicate with each other so is not material it is not governed by the laws of the universe that we are in and matter because I I see none of my soul with consciousness personally but it is more than that it is very interesting
subject and in fact the idea is business says the matter that everything is mattered says human being is a mp3 player everything is confined with the body and the one says no human being is I yeah since the human is broadcasting his radio broadcast the one says both the human is a radio that a broadcast soul committee yeah a broadcast independent exists and this the matter independence is basically it is like a radio Devon
yeah now you know I wish what do you think your I've actually I've actually said that I believe in non-local consciousness and that is the raw and we are in we kind of the brain is it's like the radio transmitter that picks up the signal or it is like the the phone that is picking up the Wi-Fi that's what I've kind of said previously I disagree with that I disagree that it is something like that because it doesn't really have any meaning when you say something an
essence differently what what I think that it is information plus matter the order of matter is both independent existence from matter both dependent at the same time like they let's say human take humans apart to its ingredients and then my ingredients in your ignorance it will be some several pounds of carbon several pounds of chaos a kilogram I am more than kilogram there for several
kilogram of carbon and oxygen and hydrogen and nitrogen and other elements correct you know this basically even put it on a table these terms of or kilograms of elements they will not make a human being modelsim bring them together create some molecules and somehow they start behaving differently these atoms yeah and these molecules come together make a chain of molecules like genetic code and that they will start and then create organized like that or like the principle in custodian psychology that the sum is greater than the whole the whole is greater than the sum of its
parts this weird information enters there is certain information is the order of atoms and then make molecules and the way the proportion and the order of molecules and then the proportion and order of package of molecules and create organs and humans therefore human is ingredients which is patterns plus the order which is information and that information is it is different separate like a computer is material think computer that is a skilling it silicon
in it and some plastic and stuff this is the hardware of the computer like human body and human computer's brain is the logic board and the circuits inside but the software or the system program is the knowledge that from a human being is uploaded is blown into the computer like next Aurora entry and this can be separate from the computer for example this computer body dies the information inside the computer both the programs and they're playing a ship programs and
the later advantage is created live on like they do in the cloud loaded loaded in the cloud the only cheetah they are always backed up another and then one day if this body dies it is there waiting there in deposit in God's Oman Qatar and then God will create another body with the wisdom new fillets and new foods origin when the personality consciousness is matched with their body that time and other creation in another universe therefore our person is really is the
information that makes our genetic makeup and plus the applications and the data and the things we gathered habits ideas convictions and sins these are the things that make our personal nets and ordinates is every time is back up in gods boom Wilke top and then one day will come this body will die but we are there and we are dead because we are not conscious in order to conscious in heaven it needs to be actively applied to an order by body
wow that is amazing people and professor has been a professor for many years in philosophy so do check out some of these discourses you know where to find him the website 19 org if you haven't already to liked my pages then shame on you that's all I can say I want to thank you professor theme for taking out the time today it's because I introduce my monk here against mic eraser well here
is the monkey here thank you very much so people should run for for hacking it out it's been a lengthy session but of one blast been incredibly well worth it and once again ladies and gentlemen Damas Y Caballeros we have the man the myth the legend professor a deep here so with that over now for Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu
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