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Habanerosky, what if this spirit you are talking about is the pattern of impulses that courses through the brain, in the same way an economy is the pattern of cashflow that courses through a market?
If you stop the cashflow, then you stop the economy. It would be very difficult to restart it once it at been stopped, and if you did, would it have the same attributes it had before?
Of course an economy, or an ecosystem, or any system that is the result of lots of small agents interacting with one another across a complex network is unaware of itself and from that point of view is different to a living mind - but is it all that different? What if the self-aware part that is so exquisitely human is just a side effect of a hugely inter-connected complex system?
Saying you can't understand the process, doesn't mean you have to answer the question by resorting to ghosts and higher cosmic planes - you don't understand them either. So do spirits have spirits that live in their heads? When a spirit dies, does it ascend to a super-spirit world? And what about these super-spirits? Where does it all stop? Why should the universe operate on this 2-realm model you describe (i.e. this world, and the spirit world)? All that idea does is give up thinking about it and label these things as beyond understanding and 'spiritual' as if that answers the questions.
Don't get me wrong, I have no idea how these things work either, but a 2-stage heiarchy just seems, well, unnatural. No other system in nature works this way, why should this one?
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