More Thoughts on Linear Time, Eternity, and How the Brain Relates to the Soul

      If a human soul is eternal, then it is timeless, that is, it is outside of time. Immortal means it cannot die, but eternal means that it exists independently of linear time as we experience it. The human body is neither immortal nor eternal. It is assembled from other matter and energy in a mother's womb, and disassembles into other matter and energy in the grave, or through cremation. It is temporally linear in nature. So the whole human being is a combination of that which is eternal in nature, and that which is temporally linear in nature.
     The ramifications of this are that the soul not only remembers what happened previously, but is concurrently at that point in time, all points in the future, as well as the current present. So perhaps human memory isn't about storage at all, but the ability of the human brain to connect to the soul as it exists at all points along its time stream. That is, one "remembers" an event because the soul is still "present" at that event concurrently with where that person is now. Likewise, one has a sense of deja vu because the soul is also present in future events (relative to one's timestream) as well, but the brain has no connective context to process those snapshots or frames of linear temporal motion, and thus cannot put it all together cohesively. Furthermore, the further the brain moves away from a "past" event temporally, the less connection it has as the temporally bound brain is predominantly preoccupied with what it considers the present, and the "memory" becomes vague. "Strong" memories may be that the soul is particularly attached for one reason or another to those points along its time stream. Thus when someone is "living in the past," it may not be as much of a metaphor as we think it is.
     The human brain is essentially a processor for information it receives from its sensory inputs (the five senses), which it then relays up to the soul, and then in return the soul relays information back from all points where it exists, and the brain has to process that information in a way which can be interpreted by itself in a temporally linear fashion.