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The name has nothing to do with the point. Let's replace the word "salt" with "sodium-chloride".
"So saying that consciousness is supernatural because it cannot be isolated is like saying that sodium-chloride is supernatural because there is neither sodium-chloride in sodium nor in chlorine."
Each sodium-chloride body (molecule) exhibits properties due to the relationship between its component bodies (sodium and chlorine). It is more than merely a set of elements. The properties of the set are different before and after the members of the set form bonds. Yet we consider these properties natural.[/QUOTE]
Replacing the word "salt" with the word "sodium-chloride" does not change my point. Bot "salt" and "sodium-Chloride" are only arbitrary names you give to a set of elementary particles in a given geometrical arrangement.
The properties of sodium-Chloride are only some of the basic properties of the laws of physics. Since consciousness is not a basic property of the laws of physics, no arrangements of elementary particles can generate consciousness. Hence a soul must exist in man as the necessary cause of the existence of our consciousness.
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