Spirit Reflection Paper

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I know it 's too late for tonight, but I wanted to add something. You can read it tomorrow. And it 's philosophical. It 's about Spirit. Let 's agree that our consciousness is Spirit. That is, non-material. A question that used to vex me is what exactly is Spirit. What 's it made up of? It 's easy enough to say that Spirit is non-material being, but that doesn 't explain what it really is. After much thought, I finally concluded that our Spirit consists of God 's mindfulness of us (meaning it derives from God 's mind) and the associated memories and decisions we accumulate with it in life. One can not ask what is it made up of or what is its substance. Spirit can not be made of energy (photons) or any quantum particle, because these are material. …show more content…

If we have non-material consciousness, then there must be a non-material "world" or state. In that state, I further deduced there must necessarily be a non-material consciousness greater than my own, because I do not know everything. I.e. If there is a God, I know that I 'm not Him. Furthermore, since there must be a non-material consciousness that knows more than I do, this by deduction leads to there being a consciousness who knows more than any other. I know from the limitations of my own, that I am not God. That would be the one non-material mind that knows all there is to know. It is within our minds to comprehend that there is a non-material consciousness who knows everything. Being that, He must necessarily be omnipotent in His powers. Since the non-material consciousness who knows all is omnipotent, we must necessarily derive our existence from Him. Hence... the necessary existence of God proved …show more content…

They see or hear things that are not there in physical reality. But, I would assert that their illusions are in fact real things. I argue that illusions are real. Note: they don 't have to be true in order to be real. A lie, is in fact, a real thing.

With that said, even from the materialist view that the consciousness is an illusion produced by the brain, then the illusion has a physical reality. Namely, even from the materialist point of view, the illusion has a physical reality in neural connections firing in the brain in certain ways. It has a physical reality. From the non-materialist point of view, even if there were no physical reality to the schizophrenic 's illusion, their illusion has a reality as a thought in the consciousness!

So, I 've just proved that even an illusion is a real thing. From the relativist 's viewpoint, it 's truth or untruth depends on the perspective and belief of the observer. To the absolutist it 's truth or untruth depends on sensible evidence and reason. Either way though, the illusion is real, even if untrue. It is real as an abstract or as neural

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