Blood Symbols Page 37

  George Berkley, the early eighteenth century immaterialist, held that all material things are aggregates of mental ideas. He denies the existence of material substance without it first being perceived in the mind. A mind/body distinction cannot exist, because the body is merely a perception of the mind. The German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, believed the soul was only the subject of the processes of consciousness and not a separate entity, meaning that the brain is accustomed to classifying phenomena, which it later perceives as reality, but this reality is the outcome of its own activity.

  In the end, neither Dualism nor Trichotomy proves the existence of the soul. Both fail to establish the soul: whether it exists, is separate from the body, or is the mind itself, which is the informant thereof. Millennia of intense philosophical and religious debate have failed to resolve the constitution and function of the soul.

  The search for the soul continues.

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