7green_leaves
2008-06-02, 23:30
I've become curious about the point at which the soul/astral body becomes disconnected from the deceased physical body.
Defining physical death and subsequent spiritual release isn't easy I'll grant you, you could argue that the spirit only becomes detached from the body when neurological revival becomes impossible (absolute death/brain death), but I fail to see how this point can be precisely known.
Assuming the future is not predetermined, the soul cannot know whether the body will be successfully revived (albeit usually within a few minutes) or not, therefore cannot know whether the person is dead or alive, whether to remain bound or to go. Some state of spiritual flux must surely ensue for a short while until the outcome can be determined. This situation is reminiscent of Schrodinger's cat - the spirit is forced to regard the body as simultaneously dead and alive.
But in the case of cyropreservation this state of indeterminacy could continue for decades, even centuries. Technologies to successfully revive the body may develop, then again they may not. Do you believe it is possible that a soul can be bound to a body in this fashion, indefinitely?
I’ve made several, possibly very bad, assumptions here, the prime one of which being that a soul cannot go back and forth to the body which it formerly occupied.
Even so, what do you think?
Defining physical death and subsequent spiritual release isn't easy I'll grant you, you could argue that the spirit only becomes detached from the body when neurological revival becomes impossible (absolute death/brain death), but I fail to see how this point can be precisely known.
Assuming the future is not predetermined, the soul cannot know whether the body will be successfully revived (albeit usually within a few minutes) or not, therefore cannot know whether the person is dead or alive, whether to remain bound or to go. Some state of spiritual flux must surely ensue for a short while until the outcome can be determined. This situation is reminiscent of Schrodinger's cat - the spirit is forced to regard the body as simultaneously dead and alive.
But in the case of cyropreservation this state of indeterminacy could continue for decades, even centuries. Technologies to successfully revive the body may develop, then again they may not. Do you believe it is possible that a soul can be bound to a body in this fashion, indefinitely?
I’ve made several, possibly very bad, assumptions here, the prime one of which being that a soul cannot go back and forth to the body which it formerly occupied.
Even so, what do you think?