... is unconscious and thus unaware of the presence of Sod.' Furthermore, since sleeping is essentially a bodily activity it seems incoherent to suggest that a soul could sleep.The state of being without a body is an abnormal state of the hum n person. This is one of the clear differences between temporary disembodiment and immortality of the soul, for the second doctrine (at least in versi ons of it influenced by Plato) entails that disembodiment is the true or proper or best state of the human person. On the ... present three m ain arguments against the conceivability or possibility of su...

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... to Dante the soul does live after physical death. It [the soul] goes on enduring and remembering the things that happen to it. You, the real you, the inner light you, never dies. You may go one. But in my view your soul dies with you. If there is a heaven, is it an unlimited hard drive that never fills up? Reincarnation is not a viable option. The belief that the soul returns into ... that whatever happens necessarily. Not only is the world such that all events are determined by prior events, but the universe is a perfect, rational whole. For all their interests in logic and speculative ...

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