Daniel · 16 answers · 4y

Do we have a soul?

Since the physical is causally closed we either have one that does exactly nothing or we don’t. The latter seems more plausible

There's too much spiritual/mystical "baggage" attached to the word "soul." People have minds, they have identities, they're not just bodies or just objects in the world. There are things about them that you can't perceive by looking at them, there are things about them that you probably can't perceive at all. I don't have a problem with someone calling all that a soul. But I think that when it's gone, it's gone for good.

yeah the sum total of what makes you.
you can't just build yourself a double exactly. not in the "uwu paranormal" sense, but in the time and place you're at all times sense.

of course there are many paths for the same end result, but there's only one path you can walk.

I'm sounding nuts.

in my onion, I THINK so, but purely in my onion -- I've done little reading or thinking on the topic. just my gut reaction. like, if you could clone my physical essence I don't think that entity would also contain the rest of my essence that makes me... me

I don't know. I feel like I'm becoming less sure about that kind of thing recently, like I have a little nagging feeling that there's more to existence than what we're taught in school. Could be that my mental health is getting worse and I'm experiencing derealisation, or could be that I'm starting to become WOKE about the true nature of reality. Either way, I'm kind of enjoying the ride.

I don't know exactly what a soul is. It is the part that cannot die, other than the physical body? There is so much more than just the "soul" I believe.

Yes, I think so, but soul is kind of a loaded term. People have all sorts of ideas of what a "soul" means. I'd say we have an aspect to ourselves that transcends the physical/sensorially perceptible.

Maybe, like dementia doesn't quite take someones identity away but they certainly dont feel the same person. Perhaps part of that is their soul?

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