Quiz: About the meaning of life

When the nervous system, and in particular the brain, is damaged, the very ability of the soul to feel, think, desire that is not damaged, but only the external, visible manifestation of these processes. The immaterial immortal, and therefore undamaged, soul itself cannot lose these abilities under mechanical, chemical and other influences.

Thus, for example, partial or complete loss of mind or consciousness in concussion or brain disease, although it is a mental illness, is not a loss of the soul's ability to think. This case represents only a loss of the soul's ability to manifest (express) itself in a way that is accessible to the person. It is analogous to the fact that when the body is paralysed, a person, being in a motionless condition, cannot express his feelings in the usual way (with gestures, facial expressions, words, intonation, etc.). But it obviously does not follow from this that a paralysed person does not feel various feelings: fear, hope, love, tenderness, hatred, envy, etc.

P.V. Dobroselsky.