魂(Soul)の正体
- 2012/11/08 06:51
- Category: 信仰
その後、神である主は、土地のちりで人を形造り、その鼻にいのちの息を吹き込まれた。そこで、人は、生きもの(魂)となった。-Gen 2:7
人の身体(soma)は土から、そこに神が霊(pneuma)を吹き込まれると、人は生きる魂(soul)となった。その魂は思い(mind)、感情(emotion)、意志(will)からなる。そして魂は肉体の一部である脳と同期して機能する。魂がなければ脳は単なる物質、逆に脳がなければ魂は物理的世界と関わることはできない。ここが実に不思議であり、私が手を動かすとき、神経に電流が流れるのだが、では大脳の運動野におけるその「始点」では何が起きているのか。私の魂(意志)と物質的世界の接点はどうなっているのか。
さらには霊と魂の接点では何が起きているのか、すなわち私たちはどうして神の御心を知ることができるのか。霊においてセンスされたことは魂において解釈・言語化され、肉体を通して表現される。このようにして神の御心を語り出すことが預言である。＜霊→魂→体＞の流れがクリスチャンの生き方。これが肥大した魂やあらゆる欲求に満ちる体が主役になると霊は抑圧され、それは肉(flesh)となる(Gen 6:1-2)。霊と魂、さらに身体が相互作用するとき、キリストのいのちが私たちの内をめぐり、私たちは霊の富を享受することができる。実に不思議なことなのだ。
■参考：
今回、量子的存在(Quantum Substances)が私たちの魂を構成するとの説が提出された。私たちが死ぬとき、私たちの魂は消失するのではなく、その量子的存在は私たちの限定された脳を離れ、宇宙的な状態に戻るのだとか。ある種、ニューエイジ的なコスミック・コンシャスのようでもあるが、面白い説である。
According to this idea, consciousness is a program for a quantum computer in the brain which can persist in the universe even after death, explaining the perceptions of those who have near-death experiences.
Dr Stuart Hameroff, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Centre of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, has advanced the quasi-religious theory.
It is based on a quantum theory of consciousness he and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose have developed which holds that the essence of our soul is contained inside structures called microtubules within brain cells.
They have argued that our experience of consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects in these microtubules, a theory which they dubbed orchestrated objective reduction (Orch-OR).
Thus it is held that our souls are more than the interaction of neurons in the brain. They are in fact constructed from the very fabric of the universe - and may have existed since the beginning of time.
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The concept is similar to the Buddhist and Hindu belief that consciousness is an integral part of the universe - and indeed that it is really all there may be, a position similar to Western philosophical idealism.
With these beliefs, Dr Hameroff holds that in a near-death experience the microtubules lose their quantum state, but the information within them is not destroyed. Instead it merely leaves the body and returns to the cosmos.
Shocked back to life: The theory holds that when patients have a near death experience their quantum soul is released from the body and re-enters the cosmos, before returning when they are revived
Dr Hameroff told the Science Channel's Through the Wormhole documentary: 'Let's say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state.
'The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can't be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large.
'If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says "I had a near death experience".'
He adds: 'If they're not revived, and the patient dies, it's possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.'
Evidence: Dr Hameroff believes new findings about the role quantum physics plays in biological processes, such as the navigation of birds, will one day prove his theory
The Orch-OR theory has come in for heavy criticism by more empirically minded thinkers and remains controversial among the scientific community.
MIT physicist Max Tegmark is just one of the many scientists to have challenged it, in a 2000 paper that is widely cited by opponents, the Huffington Post reports.
Nevertheless, Dr Hameroff believes that research in to quantum physics is beginning to validate Orch-Or, with quantum effects recently being shown to support many important biological processes, such as smell, bird navigation and photosynthesis.
( via dailymail.co.uk )