Disclaimer: It has been a while since I read the Cosmere (around a year). If what I ask is stupid please tell me
On my most recent reread of Words of Radiance I stumbled into Jasnah explaining her theory on spren to Shallan. specifically when she said "I think some of them died, though how a concept can die, I do not know." (about spren and what we know as the recrence). this had me thinking about the spiritual identity/connections of the deadeye spren being "deleted" due to the destruction of their Nahel bond. But this leads me to a contradiction in my thoughts. I had been led to believe not just by Jannah, but by others as well (real or not)- that spren specifically are fragments of honor/cultivation's investiture left in the cognitive realm and then shaped by the "dawn-singers" cognitive enforcement of those fragments (mostly) according to Jasnah's theory.
However, This got me musing about a contradiction. from here and the copper mind I thought that spiritual aspects as investiture and our spiritual (connection and identity) flowed from the spiritual realm filtering through the cognitive, then manifesting in the physical realm. I know that the cognitive filter can affect how that spirit web manifests in the physical realm (ex: kaladins brand). but this seems like a paradox. in short, can cognitive aspects (perception in this case) affect spiritual aspects (identity)?
i realize now this might be a stupid question but I'm curious to see what you guys have for me.
