But you could also say that death is a more permanent form of losing consciousness. To someone who doesn’t know better, I could certainly see someone thinking “If something happens to the brain, you get seriously messed up. But if something happens to the heart you die, period. So perhaps the heart is more important than the brain since even the slightest injury or malfunction means instant death. Therefore, our life force must reside in the heart, not the brain.” This could even lead you to thinking that the brain’s purpose is in someway indirectly related to the heart, e.g. blood cooling, such that damage to the brain can cause damage to the heart, which is why some but not all damage to the brain is deadly.
I get what you are saying, but I think that connection is only obvious in hindsight.
Therefore, our life force must reside in the heart
For the purposes of this subthread we should distinguish “life force”, “soul”, and “mind”. They were commonly thought to be separate concepts and not necessarily residing in the same body part.
But you could also say that death is a more permanent form of losing consciousness. To someone who doesn’t know better, I could certainly see someone thinking “If something happens to the brain, you get seriously messed up. But if something happens to the heart you die, period. So perhaps the heart is more important than the brain since even the slightest injury or malfunction means instant death. Therefore, our life force must reside in the heart, not the brain.” This could even lead you to thinking that the brain’s purpose is in someway indirectly related to the heart, e.g. blood cooling, such that damage to the brain can cause damage to the heart, which is why some but not all damage to the brain is deadly.
I get what you are saying, but I think that connection is only obvious in hindsight.
For the purposes of this subthread we should distinguish “life force”, “soul”, and “mind”. They were commonly thought to be separate concepts and not necessarily residing in the same body part.
Depends on the culture.