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 	the only reasonable belief, and intrinsically, fatally flawed. In doing so, I hope to enable the reader to share in my

 	frustration as it concerns this unsolveable problem.

 </p>

-<h2>Analogy</h2>

-<p>

-	Consider reading my essay concerning <a href="analogy.php">analogies</a> prior to continuing this article.

-</p>

 <h2>The Brain</h2>

 <p>

 	Defining consciousness is itself no easy task. The term has been used by various authors in various ways, and each of

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 	It is the opinion of some authors that this description of the brain minimizes human agency. I reject this--human agency

 	is itself a product of the process I have described, and cannot be minimized by a description of its origin. The reason for

 	this concern can likely be ascribed to the long-standing belief in some form of <i>soul</i>, or other intangible, immeasurable

-	entity separate from the mechanical processes of the brain. 

+	entity separate from the mechanical processes of the brain. <b>The brain evidently determines behaviour.</b>

 </p>

 <h2>The Soul</h2>

 <p>

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 	or godliness; created at conception, or repurposed, from some prior incarnation in rebirth; or whether it is located in the

 	heart, or in the pineal gland--the soul is a concept that has been invented by multiple independant cultures over

 	human history, and is deeply important to the philosophy and religion of a significant portion of those alive today.

+	The specific reason for the prevalence of a belief in the soul is easily ascribed to humans' perception of ourselves

+	as conscious, and a desire to understand the origin and nature of that consciousness.

+	<b>The soul evidently determines behaviour.</b>

 </p>

 <h2>The Problem</h2>

 <p>

 	If the brain adequately explains human psychology, if thoughts are merely specific patterns of neurons firing,

 	it seems that there is no place for the soul in modern science.

 </p>

+<h2>(There isn't) An Analogy</h2>

+<p>

+	Consider reading my essay concerning <a href="analogy.php">analogies</a> prior to continuing this article.

+	Philosophers, and those experiencing existential crises, have frequently referenced a set of thought experiments concerning

+	a common theme: that the consensus material world may not be <i>real</i>, or, more precisely, that it may not be the base stratum

+	of objectivity. Possibly the first record of this concern was René Descartes's <i>evil demon</i> argument, which posits that

+	one's senses may be an illusion created by some malevolent agent--an all powerful demon capable of inducing to you any sensory

+	perception he chooses. A more modern phrasing is the <i>brain in a jar</i> scenario. In this case, some future technology

+	enables the brain to be suspended and kept living inside of an artificial environment. This brain is precisely stimulated

+	by computer, generating a simulated perception of a reality, which could be entirely different from the one the brain is

+	located in. Other, analogous arguments include the <i>Boltzmann Brain</i>, the simulation hypothesis, and certain interpretations

+	of hell, heaven, and purgatory.

+</p>

+<p>

+	Consider these arguments. They are irrefutable--we must live as though they are false, but we cannot prove that they are. We can,

+	however, take one important point from them: regardless of what specific reality we may interpret, and what specific reality may

+	truly exist, it is evident that we have an acute sense of our own existence as some form of entity; it is unclear whether we are being

+	tricked, but it is clear that there is something to <i>be</i> tricked.

+</p>

 <h2>Thought Experiment</h2>

 <p>

 	Suppose we had access to some form of device capable of precisely measuring the exact state of every neuron and neurotransmitter

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 </p>

 <ul>

 	<li><h3><a href="cryptography.php">Cryptography</a> - because secret messages are cool</h3></li>

-	<li><h3><a href="moralrealism.php">Moral realism</a> - epistemology of ethics</h3></li>

+	<li><h3><a href="moralrealism.php">Moral Realism</a> - epistemology of ethics</h3></li>

 </ul>

 <h2>Mathematics</h2>

 <p>