There’s about 2000 years of Christian theology that reject the idea that you and your body are strongly bound. In fact, there’s a great deal written about how your body is, in fact, in conflict with you (your “flesh” acts against the will of your “spirit”). Gnostics went as far as believing they were so separate that nothing done by the body had any affect on the self. No only that, but there is a higher abstraction that we no longer have direct access to.
Hinduism and Buddhism (and others) that teach reincarnation also see the self as separate from the body.
It reminds me of a Robert Jastrow quote: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
Post-modern philosophy often seems a lot like Java developers. Reimplement good ideas because they were written in a different framework.
> There’s about 2000 years of Christian theology that reject the idea that you and your body are strongly bound.
I meant that in the sense that your soul and your body are in some sense matched for one another, not that they cannot be separated. But your soul cannot (or at least typically does not) enter a different body than the one it started out in, at least not during your tenure here on earth.
There’s about 2000 years of Christian theology that reject the idea that you and your body are strongly bound. In fact, there’s a great deal written about how your body is, in fact, in conflict with you (your “flesh” acts against the will of your “spirit”). Gnostics went as far as believing they were so separate that nothing done by the body had any affect on the self. No only that, but there is a higher abstraction that we no longer have direct access to.
Hinduism and Buddhism (and others) that teach reincarnation also see the self as separate from the body.
It reminds me of a Robert Jastrow quote: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
Post-modern philosophy often seems a lot like Java developers. Reimplement good ideas because they were written in a different framework.