As you learned in Chapter 4, Socrates believed that death involved the departure

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As you learned in Chapter 4, Socrates believed that death involved the departure of the soul from the body. He believed also that the soul continued to exist in a disembodied state. Like most ancient Greek philosophers, Socrates could not imagine how we could be alive without a soul. For the Greeks, the soul is what animated the body. Modern science, on the other hand, no longer talks about body and soul. Unlike the ancient Greeks, modern science understands thought and emotion as related to the brain. What is your own notion of the soul? Why do you suppose you hold that position? What evidence can you offer that the position is plausible?

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The soul is regarded by many as an immaterial substance that can survive death and is intimately associated with a person’s memories, passions and values. In my opinion, however, there is no such thing as a soul and all the functions attributable to this kind of soul can be explained by the workings of the brain. It has been established that the brain is where thinking occurs, emotions reside, sensations become perceptions, personality is formed, memories and beliefs are held, and where decisions are made (Paxinos, 2016). The multifarious functions carried out by the brain renders the concept of the soul purposeless.
References:
https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/qz.com/789780/neuroscience-and-psychology-have-rendered-it-basically-unnecessary-to-have-a-soul/amp/
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/think/article/do-souls-exist/9F0A38C2F9500F4B9EDE947DE491A9C7

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