Mo, your the man!!!moses wrote:Why can't a feeling just arise from nothing and induce a nerve impulse in that amazing part of the brain. Then, of course, that nerve impulse can trundle off to a muscle and produce action.
Definition of Spirit, Webster’s 1828 Dictionary: “An immaterial intelligent substance. Spirit is a substance in which thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving (my emphasis) do subsist ... Eager desire; disposition of mind excited and directed to a particular object.”
Mo, you are describing the spirit of man. It is man’s spirit motivated by eager desire that stimulates nerve impulses to produce action. The key word here is motivated (motion). Desire without emotion (e-motion, eager desire) does not produce action.
Man’s spirit is an immaterial (non-physical) “substance in which thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving do subsist.” Spirit is the non-physical substance of man with the power to create something through motion. Nothing really is something. Nothing is spirit.
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