We all know that every thought created by the human brain (including feelings, emotions, memories, etc.), are all combinations of the physiological functions (Chemical and electrical activity) of the human brain.
It is also a scientific fact that as the body grow or mature, so does the human mind/brain. For instance, as babies grow from kids to teenagers to adults, so does there knowledge of certain things that goes on in this world. When a person becomes very old (senior citizen over age 65), as the body becomes feeble, so does the mind. The problem here that I don't understand from most christians or other religious people that believes in a "soul" is, how is it, if the mind is born, grows old, and becomes weak with the body, that the mind does not also die with the body? If the body suffers from a fever, then the mind will suffer feverish delusions. How is it that the feverish mind doesn't die with a feverish body?
Also, if the mind and the soul is connected to each other somehow, what about those people that have or are born with mental disabilities and have brain damage like from a car accident for instance, and they have to end up having brain surgery? Or what about some people like senior citizens that have disease or disorder that mainly effects the brain like Alzheimers (sp?) or children that have Attention Deficit Disorder? What effect does this give out to the soul, if it did in fact exist? It is a known fact that surgeries, diseases, and disorders of the brain do causes certain changes in people like changes in their personalities. If the soul is the real you, you ID for this world and who you are, and if the soul is connected to the brain, then how does these disorders and diseases effect the soul then? I mean does their deity purposely put a "damage" soul into a persons body?
Speaking of disorders that effect the brain and causes personality changes in a person, where are memories or information the brain receives is stored at anyway. Are they actually stored in the brain itself or are they stored in the soul? Again some people tend to lose their memory through such cases as alzheimers disease, ADD, through some sort or major accident, etc. How does your soul remember anything if the brain stores memories, but then loses it through some sort of situation? What happens to those memories that are forgotten or lost? Does the soul somehow finds them so that you can remember every single second of your life so you can still be the person that you are in an afterlife, or does it only get those things that your conscious mind can normally remember?
The idea of a immortal soul and a afterlife defeats the whole purpose of death and dying in the first place (I will discuss this part of the subject on "My Views On Atheism and Death").
