Since the appearance of mankind, people have not ceased to look for an invisible and weightless entity, which is commonly called the Human Soul. Technological advances in progress only spurred scientists to new horizons of search. Now they have at their disposal tomographs, atomic microscopes and a huge amount of other equipment: with the help of them they hope to find the answer to the eternal question …
What is soul
Plato believed that we do not form new skills, but only remember what we knew before birth. From this, the great philosopher concludes that the soul exists. Many centuries later, Descartes wrote the fundamental work Passions of the Soul, where he affirms the equality of mind and soul. However, modern research in the field of neuroscience has shown the inconsistency of the work of these philosophers.
Contradiction
In the 1960s, Nobel laureate Roger Sperry showed that the brain and our consciousness are one, thereby refuting Descartes' theses. The neuroscientist has empirically demonstrated how surgical intervention in the physical body of the brain changes the behavioral aspects of an individual. If the soul actually existed, the person would retain all his abilities despite any interference.
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All brain work
For people, the soul is the place where emotions, motivation arise, where higher mental activity is formed. Feelings, memories, reasoning are also stored here. But, in fact, nature has no incentive to create some kind of duplicate organ, because the mind is already performing all the same functions.
Hippocrates knew everything
In fact, the idea of brain activity is not new at all. Even Hippocrates (460-377 BC) said that nothing but reason gives rise to joy, laughter, motivation, despondency and other feelings inherent in man. Only through this organ do we receive wisdom and knowledge, as well as the ability to see, hear and touch the world around us.
Autism
If the soul does exist, a kind of immaterial substance that gives us humanity, then how to explain the problems of people with autism? Impaired neural activity of the brain affects their cognitive and emotional capabilities, leading to dysfunction of these fundamental personality characteristics. It turns out that such people simply do not have a soul? Thinking so cruel and unethical.
Solid chemistry
The ability of psychotherapeutic drugs to change mood provides further evidence against the existence of the soul. A chemical imbalance in the brain is very easy to provoke. For example, with the help of substances that destroy dopamine receptors, which reduce the production of norepinephrine and serotonin, there is a depression for you. The same works the other way: people with depression are helped by drugs that increase the function of the above neurotransmitters in the brain.
