Word: soule
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...series of reports charted the world of complex networks inside our heads, the intricate wiring that channels our senses, movements and self-perception. Readers valued the new scientific mappings but were circumspect about their contribution to theories of the soul and afterlife...
...came away from Pinker's article doubting whether we have a soul. If consciousness is just a by-product of electrochemical reactions inside our brain, then where is our soul? Is our soul a separate entity from this collection of tissue and neurons that keeps our body running? Or when our brain dies, are we snuffed out like a candle, and that is the end? The more science discovers about the brain, the more I'm convinced that after our brain dies, we die with...
Concluding that neural firings are the only reality denies a more transcendent meaning. We all grow old, and like Woody Allen, we wish we would not. Our soul is an immortal, stationary bedrock, evidenced by our acute perception of time passing. We perceive time because it is separate from us. If we were caught up in it, we would not perceive it. Time takes bits and pieces of what lies on the bedrock--our health, our looks, our energy--but the bedrock of our soul, with its desire for life, joy, meaning and immortality, is only shaped and smoothed...
...these gaudy statistics weren’t enough, Ogunwole has also served as the Crimson’s leader, the heart and soul of the team...
...inspired few legends and has never come to seem larger than life or as colorful as his art. In Edgar Degas: Life and Work (Rizzoli; 343 pages; $70), British Critic Denys Sutton shows why such comparative obscurity would have suited his subject perfectly. Degas was a reserved, withdrawn soul who poured most of his energies into painting and drawing. There were rumors that the artist, a life-long bachelor, did not care much for women. The evidence, Sutton decides, is inconclusive. But look at the pictures this sumptuous book provides: achingly beautiful renderings of women toweling down after baths...