¶ Life is Not Physical (1)
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Q. “Spirit and soul: do you have definitions for those?”
RBF: "I don’t have any definitions for either. What I have said is that I am sure that life is not the organism which it employs. Our organisms consist physically entirely of atoms–and atoms are completely inanimate. Whatever you and I are is metaphysical, has understanding, and has nothing to do with the physical. The relationship is between but not of, there is something between us but not of–I speak about mind as operating there, but mind discovers the relationships existing between.
“Brains are always and only coordinating the input of the senses. This one smells this way, this one sounds that way–so they are always dealing in special case compositions of experience and they can recall the special case compositions. Mind is not the special cases, but it finds these relationships–a good thing–between the special cases. This is as close as I can really come to explaining the phenomena of life and mind. It employs this organism to get its information.”
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- transcript p.12, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb’77
