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Transmigration of the soul
Today Ed Ockham describes a waking thought that reminded me of a similar experience of my own a few years ago. I had been reading Colin McGinn's The Character of Mind. At one point he describes mind as a 'centre of consciousness' or some such; or perhaps I had been unduly influenced by talk of the demonic neuroscientists that philosophers of mind like to think about. Anyway, on waking I had the thought: What if, while I was deeply and dreamlessly asleep that night, God had taken away my soul and given me another? I distinctly remember a ghastly 'falling through the floor' sensation. How was I to get my proper soul back? And then the thought occurred that this was precisely what must happen every night, and I stopped falling.
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