Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
But the "letting the soul catch up" part also has the ring of truth, or matches experience, in a way that many urban legends don't.

I suppose it does, if you believe in souls and such. One of the things about folklore is that one's own often seems obvious and true, while that of others is superstitious and patently obviously wrong.



"Soul" to me is a shorthand for the whole phenomenology of subjective experience. Wow, what lovely jargon! But I mean, the fact that we have subjective experience at all and also the wild variety of things we experience subjectively. And whether the usage of "soul" is fair for this - is it fair to use the word for "amber" (elektron) for an invisible sometimes particle sometimes wave that carries a negative charge?

And no, I think other people's folklore is often just packed with value - that is how this topic got started.


Ah noble Zmjezhd, how can I bear to disagree with you twice in one post. But perhaps you will forgive me?

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