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Many people have pondered an age-old question:
The world in 2020 is facing great changes, and the scientific community has a compelling discussion about the existence of the soul.
Nobel laureate in physics Roger Penrose and American scientist Stuart Hameroff proposed in the 90s of the 20th century,
The human soul may reside in the microtubules of the brain.
They believed that once a person's physical body was gone, the soul would return to the universe and possibly be transferred to other life forms.
Thus, the soul is immortal in a "quantum state" as the most basic unit of the universe.
A study from the University of Virginia in the United States found that
At least 2,600 people worldwide claim to be able to recall experiences from past lives, which are usually most vivid when they are 3 to 6 years old.
By the age of about 6, these memories fade away, and even more mysteriously, about 70% of these people report that they died unnaturally in their past lives.
This phenomenon has aroused widespread controversy and suspicion as soon as it was raised.
As early as 1989, Penrose studied such theories, arguing that the human brain has a complex structure and is capable of producing higher-level mental activity at a higher level than ordinary consciousness.
From a scientific point of view, these theories attempt to explain the concept of the soul in a physical and biological way.
However, if viewed from a psychological point of view, there may be different interpretations.
In psychology, the "soul" is often regarded as the core of life, the most fundamental existence of our psyche, with the characteristics of transcendent nature, and delving into it requires touching a deeper substance.
A specific case can help us understand this better.
Since the 19th century, European and American scholars have been studying the "soul" in an attempt to understand the psychological state of people before death.
In 1965, a student named Moody at the University of Virginia, after experiencing a near-death experience, described how he felt dead and entered another world during nine minutes without breathing.
There, he saw figures dressed in white, as if to give him some kind of strength.
Under the guidance of this power, he felt as if he had arrived at a comfortable and comfortable paradise.
But then, he feels like he's being taken to another place full of human emotional conflicts, a place of love, hate, and contradictions that suffocate him, and it seems like a depiction of hell.
Moody's experience is supposed to be the result of death, and his thoughts should also fade away.
However, Moody's experience seems to suggest that the soul may indeed exist, and this needs to be confirmed by further scientific and philosophical exploration.
The study of the existence of the soul in "quantum form" provides a view:
The world as we currently understand it is limited to a perceptible material level.
However, beyond this level of what we know, there is a vast and unexplored real world.
This shows that the present world in which we live is actually surrounded by the afterlife.
Even if our physical body dies, the soul still exists in the spiritual quantum realm, so we are immortal and eternal.
This concept can be understood simply:
The soul itself is physically present and constitutes the essence of the human being.
The essence of human beings lies in the soul and spirit, and the body is only the material basis that carries the spirit, but it is only an appendage.
Therefore, we call the spirit the soul, and the soul-driven spiritual activity is called the mind, and the concrete manifestation of the mind is the mind.
Thought is the personality expressed by the flesh.
This also explains why thoughtless people are likened to the walking dead.
It is not difficult to understand that the human spirit is capable of existing independently of the physical body.
For example, the ancient Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato, although their bodies are long gone, their spirits, their souls, are still alive and for all eternity.
Therefore, it is a misconception and a kind of restrictive thinking to think that the human soul cannot survive without the physical body.
Their ideas can survive physical death and can be inherited and developed by future generations.
This ability to transcend the limits of human physiology and physical existence is where the power of the soul lies.
Therefore, when scientists make this idea, it can also be understood from this perspective.
However, research in this area is still ongoing, so this view cannot be considered entirely factual.
We need to look at this with dialectical thinking.
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