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Chapter 3: Dreams and the Soul


Dreams and Soul are the byproducts of the Mind.


Everyone experiences dreams. Dreams, no matter how real or magnificent, do not perform real tasks. The Mind can. So dreams cannot be part of the Mind itself.


Dreams only occur in the living body, so it coexists with the Mind, which also can only exist in the living body.


Dreams are dissociated with the real physical world, so it is also a non-mathematical state.


Combining all the above understandings, dreams are best understood as the byproduct of the Mind.


After the body extinguishes, the Mind also vanishes. What can persist after death? If a soul can exist after the body perishes then the soul cannot also be the Mind. My theory is that it can only be the byproduct of the Mind — a dream-like state. If there is a soul that exists after the Mind vanishes, it is a dream-like state.


So now we can have a vague idea of what our future

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