Despite having an introverted and reflective personality I had never really thought of the differences between self and soul; that is until it was brought up in class. Now I wondering just what is self? And how does it relate to the soul?
We said in class that memory and your conscious life is self, which makes prefect sense. But I can't help but think that memory and conscious thought are part of the body; it's in the hardware of the brain. We can't think without our RAM and ROM so to speak. So does that mean when we die our self dies? Or does the soul, a spark of the divine, gain an imprint of the self? Should, can something timeless have imprinted on it something from the finite? Or is it possible that memory and therefore self is not just a part of the brain?
My rambling may not make much sense, but it's a little scary to think that while souls can be saved the self might be doomed to fade out of existence.
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