{Schizophrenia (1) [continued (3)] – Meaning and Matter}[14th December 1987]

[Redbook4:226-227][19871214:2010e]{Schizophrenia (1) [continued (3)] – Meaning and Matter}[14th December 1987]

19871214. 2010

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*But (I imagine clinicians to argue) Schizophrenia is demonstrably linked to chemicals – to diet – to genes – perhaps to viruses. Where does Love come into this? In the same way, in the T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] review** of a new book, The Evolution of the Soul,*** objection is made that the Soul cannot exist separate [sic] from**** the body and brain because (as I understand the argument) if the brain# affects the Soul#*, which affects the Soul [sic – see footnotes # & #*]#**, which affects the brain, a net gain or loss of energy may occur in the system, defying the physical rule of conservation of energy.

In fact this objection (as I have expressed it) must surely be wrong: if light enters the eyes and conveys a message of information [to] the brain, surely we do not expect the energy increase in the brain to match the energy in the light? The Soul, like any sensory impression, is an information pattern.

What this does suggest (although I do not know whether it necessitates the conclusion) is that the Soul, if it exists,#*** is separate from the brain, just as light or sound is separate from the brain: otherwise the conservation law perhaps would be breached.

*[See last previous entry.]

**this week, by Adrian Cussins.

***R.[?] Swinburne, Clarendon Press.

****but interactive with.

#[=body?]

#*[=brain?]

#**[or possibly there is simply an accidental repetition here of the words “which affects the Soul,” – this seems the most likely explanation.]

#***[N.B.]

[See [Redbook4:87-88][19871003:1650d]{Souls}[3rd October 1987] ]

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