The Soul
The theory of human thought, states that emotions are determined by a person’s reality and that they are a product of a familiarized association that has been made in the empirical world. Since the reality of a person is relative and different people can learn to like and dislike different things no emotion can be innate. Some people believe that the soul of a person is responsible for their emotions such as love and guilt; however, this theory indicates that the responsible for the existence of emotions is the familiarization principle and thus, the ability of the human brain to become familiarized with mental processes. Therefore by definition the conscious subconscious is what people refer to as the soul of a person. When a person dies no thinking process can take place and since emotions are familiarized associations and thus by definition a thinking process, it can be said that when a person dies the person ceases to have emotions. Thus, it can be said that the soul does not exist. The question then arises can a person go to heaven? If one is to answer this question one must first understand the concept of dreams.
Dreams
Dreams are the result of imaginative or innovative thinking processes occurring at a subconscious level. Furthermore, according to the conscious principle, a person cannot use information that he does not have; hence, every dream that the person has will be a resemblance to the empirical reality in which the person that is dreaming lives in. Lastly, according to the motivation principle a person cannot undertake a conscious thinking process without their being a motivation that triggers it; hence, when a person dreams it is always a manifestation of the subconscious analyzing a piece of information that has been attained. Therefore dreams can often be an indicator of moods and preferences of the person that is experiencing them. Moreover, dreams that are strongly perceived could be regarded as important dreams to the person that is experiencing them for the motivation that triggers them is stronger. (Strong, here is different to different people and depends completely on the persons perception and thus, reality of what is relevant to them.)
Heaven
Then the question is; can a person go to heaven? First it is impossible for a person to go to heaven since by definition “going” requires the person moving from a location to another and seeing that when a person dies he does not move, by definition a person cannot go to heaven. Nonetheless, the ability of a person to dream, where dreams can serve as an indicator of the mood and worries of the conscious subconscious allows for heaven to be perceived. However, this theory has no favoritism since a person from any religion can perceive heaven and what heaven looks like is completely determined by what a person believes that heaven will look like. This theory also suggests that the more real a person believes that heaven is, the more likely the chance that a person will perceive heaven. (This theory dismisses heaven as merely a dream since it can only be perceived by one individual (isolation principle). Where heaven is always perfect since it will be an exact representation of what the person believes would be the perfect place (the individual’s definition of perfect)).
Nevertheless; does everyone that believes that heaven exists perceives heaven and conversely can someone perceive hell? It can be observed that since there are some actions that are wrong and some that are right and that most, if not all, religions have a set of rules of what a person needs to perform in order to “go” to heaven, it can be asserted that a person can only perceive heaven if they abide and follow the rules that are highlighted by their belief.
Can a person perceive hell? The answer is, yes, like heaven a person can perceive hell and like heaven for a person to perceive hell they most believe that hell exists and that they will go to hell. It could be argued that the motivation principle only allows a person to perceive things that are not painful and since hell is described as the most painful place one could imagine, it could be said that perceiving hell is not possible. Nonetheless, this is not a correct interpretation, perceiving hell is possible due to the emotions of guilt or desire to punish one self. If a person has with him a deeply embedded feeling of guilt and his reality determines that for this reason the person must go to hell, hell will be perceived as a compensation for his bad acts. The question then arises; can a person that does not feel guilt perceive hell? No, this is not possible, although it is possible that due to an active ever changing life a person ignores the guilt, if there is any guilt in a person then there is a chance that a the person might perceive hell. Hence, a person that has murdered 50 human babies (this action is regarded as wrong in most societies) and does not feel any guilt then the person can never perceive hell.
However, a problem arises from this assertion; if heaven is merely a dream would not this mean that, like any other dream, at some point it will end? In this scenario a person never “goes” to heaven since heaven is perceived forever. Furthermore imagination is a thought process and seeing that when a person dies he stops thinking this would mean that a person will never perceive heaven. Nonetheless, perceiving heaven for eternity is possible; to understand why one must first understand the act to perceive.
Everything that is perceived is a memory that a thought process has taken place. For example, where you alive yesterday? Logically the answer would be yes; but why? This is because you remember what actions you performed yesterday. Therefore the knowledge of one’s existence is based on a memory of a performed action. If the question was rephrased to state: where you alive one second ago? The answer would depend upon the memory that a person has of the actions that took place one second ago. Therefore it can be said that everything that took place in the past exists because there is memory that it did. With this in mind let us now look at perception.
To make a perception a person must possess a consciousness and therefore the person must be able to think and concentrate. Thus, one can conclude that the act of perceiving is the act to think. Now, a perception of a thought process is in fact a memory that a thought process has taken place. This is because by the time a person is aware that the thought process has taken place the process itself already occurred. For example, a person is sat down on a chair in a park reading this essay. While he is sitting on the chair, his body is in contact with the chair, clothes, and shoes. The person is feeling the breeze of the air hitting his body; he is hearing the sound that the breeze creates. In essence an incredible amount of information is being felt. Now, for as long as a person is reading he will not perceive all of the other sensorial stimuli. Therefore when he makes himself aware of a perception, for example, that someone called his name; this perception will be based on something that has already happened. Hence the perception of sensorial stimuli is based on the memory that the sensorial stimuli were perceived and since the person is able to recognize what the sensorial stimuli meant it must be said that perception is based on the memory that a thought process has taken place.
Now, what would happen if the person was never aware of the sensorial stimuli that were perceived; in other words what would happen if the person never perceived that his body was in contact with the chair? Then from the point of view of the person the event would have never taken place. Ergo, if the person does not have any knowledge of an event and thus, a memory that the event took place, from the point of view of the person the event never took place.
It has been stated when a person dies he stops thinking. Now this in turn means that at some point in time the person has stopped making a perception; however, to make the perception that one has stopped perceiving one must be able to think and since one has established that when a person dies no thinking can take place a person who is dead cannot perceive that he has stopped making a perception. Consequently if the last thought process that a person perceives is a memory of the person forever perceiving heaven then it must be said that it is possible to “go” to heaven forever. Conversely one can also logically extrapolate that the last thought of a person is an eternal one.
Before moving on one must remember that whether a person is going to perceive hell or heaven is determined completely by the reality of the given person. Furthermore this theory does not label heaven or hell as a certainty but as a conceivable possibility under the principles of human thought.
This is true as long as the principles are true.