Obvious to me.
1. Individual being body and brain. Exist meaning to effectively influence/manipulate the world and it's components.
2. When someone has an NDE, it is an observation made with the brain since it can be recalled through the brain. I see it as magic to believe that without a mechanism to observe a circumstance, a brain, that we can still observe a circumstance. A computer, in a basic function, can do calculations like the brain does. Does that mean it has a soul? No, it's just a machine used to transfer energy to do calculations, and output using a device such as a monitor. While our output is through physical action usually. What's left behind of a computers work is just like that of a used number in an equation. It's done it's work, it's no more. It only lives on in the presence of my work, if I used the computer to do my work. Just as a number in an equation isn't used anymore but it still lives on in how it played it's part to arrive to the final equation. But other than that, the computer ceases to exist when destroyed, no more, gone for good other than if the maker wanted to make an exact replica, which at this time, is humanly impossible for an exact replica down to the quantum level. Only God can do that since He is the ultimate mathematician. He has time/space/energy recorded and if He so wanted, could make an exact mathematical replica of anyone. And then, if we could make an exact quantum replica, we would have to go back in time because the particles used to make the old pc have long scattered and only at that original time/space could the same particles be used in the same exact space. And to go back in time, we would have to know how the equation of time/space/energy got to where it is now, ie, recording all time/energy/space in the past so we can reverse engineer it. Like equating to a math problem again. Right now, in the present, we can only see the sum of the past influences, just as we would just see the sum of a number. We would see all the exact numbers involved to come to the final equation, and that is what would have to be recorded, down to the smallest particle level.
Ok, back on topic, but to me, the soul, if you want to call it that, only exists as a dent in the framework of time and space, as I mentioned in another thread. A number in the final equation. It is not immortal, as in ever living, only immortal in the dent it has made in the framework of time/space in which it existed. NDE's, as spidergoat pointed out, can be explained through science. Which doesn't mean it's to fool us. After all, God did give us the ability to reason which has lead many people to God such as myself. Most people who read holy texts think that it makes sense because most sound reasonable in how we should treat our fellow humans. We are given certain functions, like messages, that lead us back to God. God didn't or wouldn't put us here all alone with no way of finding Him again just as a mother wouldn't let her son go off by himself for the first time in the world without making sure he knows his way back. The more I know, the more I find out I don't know, it never ends. We won't know all and got to face it, only God and only through God, can we. I believe it is possible to overcome the obstacles of time/space by using our mind to convey to God. We are not much alone, just as a single computer in a network. But when we call upon God who is in charge of all, like a DOS attack on a computer network, we can call that one, which can rally the power of all, and make it happen. We are all connected in that sense. The power of the mind is through the power of knowing where to get more power. That is what has made humans so successful. And I believe only through God can miracles be done.
Ok, sorry, I will stop there, my mind has a bad habit of getting off topic sometimes and drabbling on.
