And do believe that I, this random guy on the internet has a soul

I personally don’t believe that I anyone else has a soul. From my standup I don’t se any reason to believe that our consciousness and our so called “soul” would be any more then something our brain is making up.

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    10 months ago

    Honestly, rather than a “yes” or “no” I’m just gonna say that I don’t think anybody’s given a clear enough definition of what would constitute a “soul” to even make the question mean anything.

    Recent studies suggest that much of consciousness/information synthesis is not in the neurons themselves, but the electromagnetic fields that they generate. Is that a soul?

    What about the gut microbiome and how much of an oversized effect it has on a person’s day-to-day experience? If the soul is some manifestation of your non-physical existance, would it be affected by those very physical little buggers, since they can affect your mood so much?

    Even if you go to the classic religious context about a conscious experience that exists after death, you still have to answer whether or not they can wander earth, or, as some christian denominations think, they’re all in heaven, hell, or purgatory so you’ll never ever need to care about a non-embodied soul on earth anyway.