"Spiritual Reality" v "Physical Reality"
First, thanks for those excellent quotes from the Pope's book.
I'd say 80% of Catholic Priests still in-correctly believe the
Resurrection re-combines a person's physical body with that
person's spiritual soul. The Pope is correctly saying that when
a person dies, that person goes completely out of existence,
and at the Resurrection, that person is re-Created by God, based
on God's memory of that person (ie, Resurrected = Re-Created).
The Pope is saying Physical Reality is the reality studied in Physics
and Chemistry. For instance, VISIBLE LIGHT is Physical Reality
because it has mass and is "bent" by gravity (Einstein wins again).
The Pope defines Spiritual Reality as any Reality which is NOT ...
Physical Reality. Therefore, the Pope is saying that INFORMATION
and LIFE are not Physical Realities because they have no MASS or
other Physical properties.
For example, if you read a book or watch a new movie, you add
millions of bits of INFORMATION to your to your brain, but your
resulting MASS is not increased or decreased. This is similar to adding
software to your computer. However, the code of the software is Physical
while the INFORMATION encoded is SPIRITUAL. Likewise, when Bacteria
die, they do not gain or lose MASS. You will note that most definitions
of INFORMATION and LIFE are circular (eg, LIFE is the property of a
LIVING organism).
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