You have described God as immaterial, spaceless, and infinite mind.

It seems that embodied human soul, mind is is immaterial, but not spaceless, or

infinite. How can this be? If the soul mind leaves the body at death, does it become a

spaceless, infinite mind? Thanks, Peter, United States. I agree with you, Peter, that the human

soul or mind is an immaterial entity and that it is not infinite.

It's not being infinite as God is infinite seems to me pretty straightforward.

As a maximally great being, God has certain properties like omniscience

and omnipotence that entail his infinity, whereas human souls are very limited in knowledge

and power, and therefore finite. So that difference between God and human souls seems

perspicuous. The spacelessness of God follows from his creation of space. If space is itself a

substance, then it must have been created by God, since God is the only

uncreated being. On the other hand, if space is dependent upon relations between physical objects,

then in the absence of any universe, space would not exist.

So either way, God is the creator of everything apart from himself, must transcend

space and therefore be spaceless.

Things are more difficult with the human soul. Souls certainly seem to be in space.

I am, for example, currently in my office. Now, if souls are in space, they cannot be extended throughout space like a gas, lest part of me exist in my left hand, and another part of me exist in my right hand.

Therefore, many philosophers and theologians believe that if human souls are in space during

this lifetime, they must be wholly present at the region of space that they occupy. That is to say,

the soul is wholly present in the body rather than extended throughout it.

Alternatively, one could say that the soul occupies a single spatial point from which it directs the body.

On this view, the difference between the soul's spatial

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