>>>And my answer is "how do I know? I don't even know if there's any god at all".
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>>Frankly, I think it's the physical part of myself that 'knows, intuits, understands'. It's the brain that does this stuff. If it's about spirit then it would have to be way more metaphysical than that.
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>I don't see how you can get more metaphysical but to start with the confession that you can't know the Universe. Or are you claiming that it's not the spirituality that faith has monopoly on, it's metaphysics?
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>And I wouldn't be calling those "parts of myself". I am a body. I am a mind. It's not what I HAVE, it's aspects of what I am. Or else who would be the one to ask "who is it that does the having of the mind"?

You contend then do you, that if your brain were removed from your head, you would still have all your knowledge, intuition, faith etc? In other words, your mind would pretty much be unaffected?

Sorry, my mind is a manifestation of how my brain works - physically. There isn't any metaphysics, spirit, call it what you will, involved.