psycohology vs. religion what makes our personality or who we are..our SOUL or our Brain??Opinions welcome?

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Okay so I was wondering what does peoples personalities come from (your brain or your soul).. I mean we are all not perfect humans, we have intrusive thoughts,negative thoughts,disturbing thoughts etc(about even our closest ones). Some thoughts even automatic we catch ourselves thinking odd things...and sometimes feel bad for having that little video/image in our head.so my question is what defines who we really are if not those thoughts....

What defines if we are good/bad people...if we all make mistakes and have instrusive/bad thoughts at times.
Are we who we are because of our brain chemistry...(neurotransmiters etc...genes etc)
or are we who we are because of our soul inside our bodies...
let me pick your brain a bit:
Lets say your depressed...your doctor will aruge that you need to take more serotonin,provide you eigther anti depressents to stimulate your brain..or increase your intake of folic acid,vitamin B,Vitamin C and serotonin. However, if you go to a priest he will tell you to pray,to meditate,to try to clense your soul,to tell yourself positive affirmations etc.

Like people who kill others...do they have a bad soul..or is there brain chemistry just out of whack..or both

Can you have a good soul and bad thoughts/

My question to you yahoo answer people...is
1. What do you think about what I just said?

2. Have you ever had weird thought/perverted random thoughts/awful..intrusive thoughts...Can you please share.(with strangers/loved ones?)

Answer 1

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Answer 2

As an atheist psychologies - I think you know my answer.



There is no such thing as the soul as a detachable aspect of a human, it is a description only. To talk about our personality as 'brain chemistry' is to completely misunderstand how the brain and mind work. Personality is mainly learned however it is laid over a genetic blue print.



The core of the brain is the most ancient in evolutionary terms, it is the same structure as fish and reptiles. Indeed it is nicknamed the reptilian brain. It is the seat of the sub (un) conscious. It therefore controls the automatic elements of our body; hunger, thrust, breathing, the fight or flight response.



The next layer was evolved when mammals evolved. It houses the higher order senses and memories.



The fore brain is where our conscious mind is located. It is were our intentional thoughts and awareness is located.



How comes I say there cannot be a sole? It is the way that brain research has been done. There are basically three ways to locate activity in the brain:



1/ stimulus confusion. This is where you deliberately make the brain do two processes at once and observe the results. It is like patting your belly as u rub your head and vis.a.vera.



2/ observe brain damaged people and see what elements they cannot do.



3/ scan or read the brain as a person does tasks.



In all cases, areas of the brain (the same in all people) function to handle the task and the brain waves demonstrate this as brain action.



There is no need and indeed no room for a soul. It is like asking where the horses are that pull your car.

Answer 3

Most non believers are monist which means that that they don't see the Platonic duality within the make up of humans. In different phrases that there's no such factor as a soul, and that brain and frame are one and the identical. This is what's known as the "reductionist" view of humanity wherein humans are not anything greater than plenty of complicated tissue with bio-electric undertaking permitting their functioning or what we name "dwelling." In the cognitive technological know-how neighborhood there may be a lot debate surrounding the unique nature of "cognizance" and what a few name "non-locality" when you consider that at quality the sort of view might best produce zombies. Most devout humans nonetheless ascribe to the seventeenth century Cartesian "dualism" or a few style of Platonic tripartitism. The hindrance with such perspectives is the identical that psychoanalyst for the period of the primary part of the 20 th century bumped into: how precisely does one show that those divisions truthfully do exist?