Soul, Mind and Body

• Soul - the immaterial essence of a person
• "The soul is inseparable from the body... That is why we can wholly dismiss as unnecessary the question of whether the soul is separate from the body" - Aristotle, De Amina
• "The absurdity here arises from the fact that the grin is not a word for a substance. It makes no sense to talk of grins occuring without the faces of which grins constitute one possible kind of configuration" - Anthony Flew
• "man is made of dust but is filled with the spirit of God" - Keith Ward
• "of course the soul depends on the brain, but the soul need not always depend on the brain anymore than a man need always depend on the womb which supported his life before birth" - Keith Ward
• "Cogito ergo sum" - Descartes
• "genes are replicators and we are their survival machine" - Richard Dawkins
• "The soul is in some sense the principle of animal life" - Aristotle, De Anima
• "the case of the mind is different; it seems to be an independent substance implanted within the soul and to be incapable of being destroyed" - Aristotle
• "Our soul is of a nature entirely independent of the body and consequently it is not bound to die with it. And since we cannot see any other causes which destroy the soul we are naturally led to conclude that it is immortal" - Descartes
• "The dogma of the ghost in the machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both both bodies and minds" - Gilbert Ryle
• "I shall argue that the fundamental unit of selection and therefore self-interest, not the species, nor the group, nor even strictly, the individual. It is the gene, the unit of heredity" - Richard Dawkins
• "Soul one refers to a particular theory of life. It's the theory that there is something non material about life, some non physical vital principle. It's the theory according to which a body has to be animated by some anima. Vitalised by a vital force. Energised by some mysterious energy. Spiritualised by some mysterious spirit" - Dawkins
• "there is a second sense of soul, Soul Two... Intellectual or spiritual power. High development of the mental faculties. Also, in somewhat weakened sense, deep feeling, sensitivity" - Dawkins
• "Genes are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside" - Dawkins
• "My suspicion, my hunch, my hope, is that... Soul One will finally be killed and good riddance. But in the process, Soul Two, far from being destroyed, will still be finding new worlds to conquer" - Dawkins