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** But note that this is a comparatively recent religious interpretation. The bulk of Christian theology, at least up through Thomas Aquinas, makes it very clear that a you are a \'\'body and a soul\'\', and a disembodied soul is inherently incomplete. In the very early church, going around claiming that \
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** But note that this is a comparatively recent religious interpretation. The bulk of Christian theology, at least up through Thomas Aquinas, makes it very clear that a you are a \\\'\\\'body and a soul\\\'\\\', and a disembodied soul is inherently incomplete. In the very early church, going around claiming that \\\"you \\\'\\\'are\\\'\\\' a soul; you \\\'\\\'have\\\'\\\' a body,\\\" would be considered dangerously close to gnostic heresy.
*** Actually it\\\'s backwards. The original interpretation going back to Judaism \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' that you are a soul, and that soul consisted of the mind, body, and spirit. To use the analogy above, the mind is the driver, the body the car, and the spirit the car battery; the soul was everything together.
*** And sometimes the distinction was so blurred, people thought that the soul was an actual \\\'\\\'organ\\\'\\\' within the physical body.
**** Said organ is commonly referred to these days as the brain.
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Some schools of philosophy dismiss this notion, such as phenomonology and positivism (see \\\'\\\'Consciousness Explained\\\'\\\' by Daniel Dennett for an alleged thorough experimental demolition of the \\\"Cartesian Theatre\\\"; alternatively, see \\\'\\\'The Conscious Mind\\\'\\\' by David Chalmers for a theoretical defence of a similar idea).
*** Actually it\\\'s backwards. The original interpretation going back to Judaism \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' that you are a soul, and that soul consisted of the mind, body, and spirit. To use the analogy above, the mind is the driver, the body the car, and the spirit the car battery; the soul was everything together.
*** And sometimes the distinction was so blurred, people thought that the soul was an actual \\\'\\\'organ\\\'\\\' within the physical body.
**** Said organ is commonly referred to these days as the brain.
Moving this section from the description because it does not help explain the trope:
Some schools of philosophy dismiss this notion, such as phenomonology and positivism (see \\\'\\\'Consciousness Explained\\\'\\\' by Daniel Dennett for an alleged thorough experimental demolition of the \\\"Cartesian Theatre\\\"; alternatively, see \\\'\\\'The Conscious Mind\\\'\\\' by David Chalmers for a theoretical defence of a similar idea).
