Human Metaphysics

Front matter
Connections List
 * Hu. meta. elements
 * Hu meta scripture
 * Spirits
 * Meaning of life
 * Death
 * Grand Design 2-1
 * Emergent Phenonmena
 * View Subjects
 * Everything is Spiritual
 * Humankind
 * Men like grass, worm
 * Healthy human
 * Personhood
 * Soul
 * Relationship
 * Heaven
 * Eternal Life
 * Human Body
 * New Bodies
 * Material antinomy
 * Psychology
 * Romans 12

Scope
 * Composition of the human

Topics
 * Hu. meta. elements (also has many verses)
 * Views list
 * Separate vs. dependent entities from God
 * Infinite/finite
 * Proposed metaphysical elements structure
 * Physical-spiritual connection with body (see New Bodies)

Views list

 * Dichotomists - soul and body
 * Trichotomists - soul, body, spirit
 * Possibly in this view the soul = flesh and can be ignored. Note heresy in bible of eat and drink for tomorrow we die. Dualism. In this view only the spirit communes with God.
 * Continuous matter (Nathan) - all elements roughly fit science. There is partial blur. The body might be easily separable if we define particle attributes but it is possible the spirit is latent in living flesh and this becomes more difficult. C.f. everything is Spiritual by Rob Bell

Proposed solution
Will (controller) Heart (input instincts, output accumulated instinct) Mind (input thoughts, output thought filter and decisions) Body (input chemicals, output actions)
 * Identity - nodal center of concept map of them, if completely broad then uniquely identifies souls/persons
 * Soul/person - contains heart, mind, body, will. Note all three/four are connected in different ways. The heart may also be thought of as a bucket for heart (desire) and mind.
 * Spirit - what is this? (input HS, output obedience?)
 * Highest order current operating goal/stuff. Depending on strength of heart, mind, body it may switch.
 * Consciousness - emergent phenomena
 * Desires - area curve / long cycle of the will? Plus other influences.
 * Emotions - see connected page, instincts
 * Happiness - positive emotion of a particular kind
 * Feelings - higher scope or goal/value thought processes (part of the mind)
 * Thoughts - logical processing
 * Perception -
 * Actions
 * Words
 * Pleasure - raw stim

Are we separate vs. dependent entities?
Data points for independence Data points for dependence
 * Are we dependent for existence on God?
 * My guess is that we are independent but w/o him we degrade to shell state. This shell state, like a piece of software, has little data. Stuck in small loops. Over-capacity arrays filled with junk. Exceptions thrown everywhere.
 * Family model -
 * "In his own image"
 * How I feel with Andrea focus
 * Sons, heirs, copy God
 * Hell while still existing
 * Art imagination and ultimate meaning
 * JC house and marraige w/God?
 * Job 33:4 "The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life."

Are we Infinite or finite

 * I'd like to think we can learn/grow infinitely in heaven with sanct. Potentially supported by Eph 3:19 - prayer that you know love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to all fullness of God