army1987 comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Yvain 26 October 2014 06:05PM

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 08 November 2014 03:38:46PM 1 point [-]

Ahh. I was thinking that "irreducible" implied "indivisible".

Do religious people think that the soul is irreducible? Even if you can't reduce it to atoms, maybe you could argue that it reduces to component memories, emotions and so forth.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 November 2014 09:47:58AM -1 points [-]

Do religious people think that the soul is irreducible?

Well, IIRC Dante Alighieri did, mentioning inattentional blindness as evidence of that.