The Soul is intangible, the mind is agnostic to the Soul

The Soul is intangible. Let us take an example to illustrate how the tangible and the intangible come together to shape 'reality'. There is a software architect. He comes up with an algorithm. A computer programmer writes a first piece of software code based on the algorithm in Java Script and uploads it on a server. Another computer programmer writes a second piece of software code based on the same algorithm in C++, and stores it on a pen drive. The first piece is executed on visiting the programmer's website on the client with a 3Ghz processor. The 2nd piece is executed by reading the pen drive and executing it in a Netbook with a 1.66 GHz processor.

Now does the processor cognize the algorithm or the architect? Is the processor aware of the computer programmer who wrote the program or the architect who devised the algorithm? The answer is NO, because the processor does not have the capability to cognize the algorithm or the architect. It only executes any instructions that are loaded on it independent of the algorithm or the architect. Essentially the hardware is a generic hardware that is AGNOSTIC to the algorithm. It is not entirely agnostic to the programming language, because it needs an interpreter and/or compiler to run that language, however it is entirely agnostic to the algorithm and the architect. Hence, the outcome or cognition happens at a tangible level, but it needs the intangible to derive the result. Despite this, the body and brain (hardware) cannot cognize the algorithm or the architect. The mini can at least detect the pen drive, but the Java Script runs automatically when the laptop connects to the server through the internet.

The mind lacks the capability to cognize the intangible soul when it loses its connection with the network and the server. However when it connects to the server and to other computers on the cloud. it acquires more capabilities and expands to acquire more and more characteristics that allow it to express more of the intangible. Such a mind that recognizes its limitations acts more as a connecting device and a thin client rather than a supercomputer that is limited not by the hardware but by the software (that has a lot of powerful capabilities in terms of power and speed, but runs useless software or software full of bugs that does not utilize the hardware capabilities and gives incorrect and undesirable results).


The algorithm can be likened to a function, or at a higher level, purpose. Our limited self is agnostic to the purpose or intent, and it simply executes actions without reference to the higher purpose. The body executes the actions but it does not get affected, but the mind has access to incomplete information and it jumps to incorrect conclusions based on the incomplete information. The mind is the aspect that creates and causes pain and anguish even when the body does not.

Agnosticism is to be expected (no surprise) due the limitations of the mind to perceive something that is beyond the mind. That is why there is a need for an awakening that involves transcending the mind. Even if we are born with an innate awareness that we are not just the body or mind, we tend to forget this due to conditioning from parents, friends, teachers and society in general that treats us as mere bodies or minds. We are constantly judged based on physical and mental characteristics by society, so how can we believe that we are something more?


There is a difference between understanding a concept or formulating a concept and cognition. Cognition is to detect and be aware of something. That something should correspond to something that is not just a mental formulation or something that is internal to the mind and body. Of course, the mind comes up with ideas and concepts that are intangible. However these ideas and concepts exist purely in the mind. Cognition is not mere ideation or evaluation of concepts. It is to detect and be aware of something that exists outside of and independent of the mind. When the idea is converted into something more than a mental formulation (e.g., into a software, a design on a piece of paper, or a prototype that is more tangible), the mind can cognize it, not directly from another mind, but from the tangible expression (e.g., on the paper, physical model or computer). Emotions are formed due to external stimuli from the senses, information obtained by external sources, or reflection of past memories or conception of future events that are all accessed within the mind by the mind itself or in combination with the senses. Of course,detecting emotions is within the scope of the mind because emotions are a creation of the mind either on its own or in combination with the body. However the mind lacks the capability to detect something intangible that does not exist only in minds or that is independent of minds. Hence the mind is agnostic to a soul.