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1-Tell me, what's a soul, and when do you get it?
2-Aside from the "feel good" aspect of it, why is there some assumption that souls will "live forever" in some other "dimension"?
3-What makes a soul?
4-When do we get one?
5-Can it ever "die"?
6-Do atheists have souls?
7-Or, is the idea of a soul just a coping mechanism to help people through things like death?
It's much easier to think that a loved one's soul lives on elsewhere even if the earthly body has died. <-- coping mechanism
So what's your thoughts and beliefs on the "soul"?
8-And...do any other animals have souls? :mrgreen:
Tell me, what's a soul, and when do you get it?
Aside from the "feel good" aspect of it, why is there some assumption that souls will "live forever" in some other "dimension"?
What makes a soul?
When do we get one?
Can it ever "die"?
Do atheists have souls?
Or, is the idea of a soul just a coping mechanism to help people through things like death?
It's much easier to think that a loved one's soul lives on elsewhere even if the earthly body has died. <-- coping mechanism
So what's your thoughts and beliefs on the "soul"?
And...do any other animals have souls? :mrgreen:
Tell me, what's a soul, and when do you get it?
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8- all life has a soul... Not saying it would work like this, but let's say a bacteria has an 8 bit soul, a dog might have a 32 bit soul, a monkey maybe 64, and people like 128...
I also know that these answers are about 90% speculative.
In my opinion, prerequisite to a 'soul' is the idea of substance dualism. That there is some kind of non-physical substance with no physical attributes that is separate from the physical energy/matter that we can see and interact with all the time. This makes things pretty difficult to begin with as by definition we are unable to attribute any 'physical' ideas to this substance: Can it move? Is it divisible? Are some bigger than others? etc. The moment we even attempt to attribute physical characteristics to it, such as by attributing size here:
we are attributing physical characteristics to it, and suddenly it's no longer a non-physical substance. If it's no longer a non-physical substance then surely it becomes tangible and measurable, which begs the question why have we never been able to interact with, measure or produce any evidence of it??
The only way to escape this issue is to concede that it is a completely non-physical substance, that 'lies beyond science' and the physical plane, in which case its entire existence is predicated on the fact that it defies investigation, which is incredibly fishy. As Ceist's video above demonstrates, almost all previous thought functions of the soul have been replaced by naturalistic processes in the brain, and the concept of a soul is now largely an emotional crutch.
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