Week 2 discussion board - Coursework Example

Brain and Soul: Partners in Shaping Human Behaviors September 15, Brain and Soul: Partners in Shaping Human Behaviors The human brain alone is not enough to explain the whole range of human behaviors. I think that humans have souls that embody the non-physical brain and heart of the body, in terms of how these souls shape feelings and actions. Souls essentially affect how people think about and act on what is right and wrong. The brain affects behavior because it controls the nerve cells that shape human thoughts, functions, and feelings that influence behavior, but I also believe that a non-physical soul guides behavior that involve ethics and morality through shaping the brain’s activities too.

On the one hand, the brain shapes human behavior because it controls the physical aspects of it through the nerve cells or neurons, while, on the other hand, the human soul affects behavior that concerns making ethical and moral decisions. The brain controls the neurons that transmit neurotransmitters. In Chapter 2 of Experience Psychology, King (2013) described several neurotransmitters and their roles in people’s learning, emotions, actions, and other daily functions. Her main point is that the brain affects behaviors through the physical actions of these neurotransmitters that reflect on what people think, feel, and do.

The human brain, however, is not the only one working when people make important decisions because the soul helps it make them. Galatians 5:22-23 showcases the effect of the soul on human feelings, attitudes, and actions: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” The Bible asserts that the human soul has a large role to play in humanity’s goodness, goodness that reflects in their values and actions.

I believe that the brain guides daily bodily functions and behaviors, but when it comes to moral and ethical decisions, the soul works on the brain too in shaping human behaviors.Both the brain and human soul are concerned in shaping human behaviors, especially when people face moral or ethical decisions. The brain controls the neurons that actually affect what people do, feel, and think about. However, it is the soul that impacts the brain when people need to make decisions that revolve around rightness and wrongness.

The brain and the soul are then separate but different entities though, as partners, they both affect what people do with their lives.ReferencesBible. Retrieved from https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?st=2&utm_expid=13466113-11.e_eljl4ZQueab2zC5ghezw.2&search=Galatians+5%3A22-23+&version=NIV&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biblegateway.com%2FKing, L.A. (2013). Experience psychology (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.