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Plato argued that the soul was immortal, that it outlived its fleshy shell after death and that it existed before birth and after birth. This made a difference from Pythagoreans who believed in the transmigration of souls, the soul, in an attempt to purify itself, continues to adopt living bodies until it has done so. The came Aristotle who believed that the soul was a kind of essence that died with the body, comprising of a vegetative soul (inherent in even plants, it is the reason for our primality) and the rational soul (logic, reasoning, only belonging to humans). My interest here is an amalgamation of these three Greek philosophers for this article entry. Let us begin with Plato, who believed that the evidence of universal truths was a form of evidence for the mind recalling the knowledge of an eternal soul. The easiest example of this is mathematical truths, as two objects that look the same under a microscope may differ wildly. Whilst, mathematics and geometrics maintained perfect logical principles, for example the perfect circle!

To a degree, I feel Plato has found the crumbs to a potential journey on the nature of the soul. As my last article posited, the soul is an infinite, top-down, ultimate observer, therefore, it would have existed before the physical form of a human. This idea of recollection in matters of ‘truths‘ is something that may have some merit also. I think the instinctual primal truths, such as breathing, thinking, motion if capable, and utilisation of the senses which fundamentally contradict. Is to a degree the recollection of a more ordered and sustainable reaction under the observation of the soul. Consciousness as a reaction, like wavelengths that collapse into ordered matter, orders itself to ‘play ball’ with the biological ‘slits’ of a human brain. With the soul as a sort of ‘God-head‘, is transmigration possible ? Well, as consciousness is merely the collapse of a form into another, then transmigration would require a reversal of the matter and the process, only to repeat itself again. Reminiscent of the paradigm of nothingness reversing itself into everything (a horribly simplified version of the theory of everything).

There are some truly unfathomable stories surrounding cases of reincarnation, with seemingly impossible coincidences. Whilst this is pure conjecture (as are all these meditations), I imagine the likelihood of conscious matter undergoing this cycle and transmigrating to another human is extremely rare. If we take these anomalous reincarnation stories seriously though, it would seem that when it does happen, this ability to ‘recall’ is present, as they remember stunning details surrounding their past lives. Finally, to end this short entry, I shall bring in Aristotle. The impact Aristotle had on western society, potentially Alexander The Great, metaphysics and intellectualism is both long-reaching and grandiose. For this reason, this is in no way the end of our time with the great philosophical mind. The vegetative soul is something that, according to Aristotle’s metaphysics, can be applied to even plants. I believe that consciousness exists in all forms, and whilst a human may not recognise it due to anthropomorphism, it exists nonetheless. What is to say light is not conscious, its reaction to devices and the observer effect displays a change in nature, it must funnel out of the maze of a stars womb as a photon particle. Consciousness is something that is not exclusive to humans, because it is a mass reaction to an ultimate observer, not a human developed internal phenomenon.

The faults of consciousness overwhelming our biology also reaffirms this in my opinion. If our brain realises it has eyes, it shall destroy them and we will be blind, without light entering the prism, we would not see colour, in fact, some of us see different colours, hear external voices, see hallucinations (see Charles Bonnet Syndrome for an interesting rabbit hole). These are topics for another entry, but a reaction is a reaction, and if it enters a blind spot, where the observation is no longer sustained, it shall change its form again. Maybe this is in part responsible for such things, or maybe as they say “We are either curing Schizophrenia, or killing fairies“