LadyZelda1's avatar
But you can't see a spiritual being, nor it's connection to any person's brain. OK, let's use a computer. If one computer is in another part of the house to the room your computer is in, you can still be connected to it wirelessly. So who says that the spiritual part of you can't be transferred somewhere else and not be seen? I recall an article years ago about how an aura was observed to be around people through some scientific means, I forgot the details. But they saw that on death the aura seemed to leave the body and up through the ceiling. They deduced that perhaps it was the soul. When we are talking spiritual things that can't be seen by the human eye because they are in another plane, who can say?
stoneman123's avatar
But you can't see a spiritual being, nor it's connection to any person's brain.

Nor can it be detected by any means. There is, in fact, nothing to suggest it's even there. Do you see what I mean?

If one computer is in another part of the house to the room your computer is in, you can still be connected to it wirelessly.

But wireless connection between two computers is carried out through a radio signal, which we can detect. There is no such signal for a dying person, so that mechanism of consciousness-transfer is unsubstantiated.

I recall an article years ago about how an aura was observed to be around people through some scientific means, I forgot the details.

I think you may be referring to Kirlian photography. Phony psychics and other credulous people like to use it as "proof" of the soul, or whatever. It actually has a very simple scientific explanation. The "aura" you see is merely the person's natural electric field reacting with the photographic plate. Like all animals, humans produce an electric field from the firing of our neurons. Snakes and sharks actually use this electric field to seek out there prey. Now, if a persn died, there nervous system would stop firing, thus negating the electric field around them. You could make a before and after pair of photos of this phenomenon and fool plenty of idiots.

When we are talking spiritual things that can't be seen by the human eye because they are in another plane, who can say?

All I can say is that if you can't see them, otherwise detect them, or find any other evidence of their existence, you have nothing to suggest their existence. In fact, I'd say that a much likelier explanation for this is that primitive human beings invented the concept of the soul because they didn't understand how the brain worked, and invented the concept of an afterlife to console themselves of their fear of dying.