Saturday 6 August 2011

Corporeal Suffering

When one considers the conditions upon which life arose, the daunting prospect of defining and publishing the spirit or soul often seems to become more a process of allocating resources, rather than deconstructing preconceived beliefs. Struck by the myriad challenges early man had to face, substantively swathing somatic suffering beneath a protective overarching reality was the only way to survive. We find, here, the soul in-situ.

What little we have learned of evolution dictates the rise to power early hominids experienced was one of grave struggle and persistence. They did not experience the 'pangs of life' any more than the definition of life did. This separation of terms only came to life when life itself became a separation of terms.

If we can define corporeal suffering than we can define the soul, life itself. What we find, however, is not a cut-and-dry reality, but one clouded by time and cleared by ambiguity. I think we are deconstructing the wrong term; our cause itself seems negligible

The contemporary definition of corporeal suffering is one which seeks to separate the spirit from the body. Having all the clues in order, it seems, we must have found the bedrock of all existence. However, from this modality alone, when one uses the same variables - although changing the values - we find a massive expanse of incongruence; finding within this a new set of conditions.

  1. Early man unarguably experienced widespread (over-life, not over-body (contracorporeal)) pain tempered only through progression and compensation. 
  2. Early man did not retain within his neurological faculties, the same ability to experience and translate pain. 
  3. Early man became pain; in that pain, defined as respite from positive sensation, was itself a positive sensation alerting one of danger. 
The lists that I form continually lead to the creation of a soul from abdication of a single reality, rather than the ascription of one. 

In light of all this, how can I make sense of pain in terms that themselves are nonsensical? Pain, then, cannot be classified in terms of body and soul, if soul can yet still be defined as body ad hoc. 

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