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If you do, then what exactly defines a soul in your view?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No. Soul = personality, nothing magic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Curious, why did you group agnostics together with atheists?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Soul” is just consciousness. Which many people seem to equate to the brain here.

There is 0 scientific evidence that consciousness has anything to do with our brains. Much to the contrary actually.

Consciousness truly is one of the biggest mysteries of life. We all experience it, but the more you observe it, the less you can find it.

It may feel at first as it’s a phenomena of the brain, of the mind. But soon after you start paying really close attention to it, you realize that consciousness is behind the mind. It’s underneath it.

It observes the mind. It observes everything. And that’s what it is. Perceiving. Aware of everything.

Its the only indivisible and irreducible thing in the universe that we ever found. Consciousness just is. It is the awareness in you. It is the awareness in everything.

When we crack consciousness, all these talks of “souls”, “god”, “atheism”, will seem just silly tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think 'soul' is not something which exists in itself - it is the idea of the essence of a thing, the thing which causes an individual life.

So theories go around that there are spiritual beings separate from the physical (debatable) and I personally think that it extends to all life, such that trees can have awareness which can also extend beyond their physical bodies.

As such, they obviously exist - but their exact definition and nature is quite hard to grasp. I don't think they can survive physical death.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a useful term in sentences like "This hurts my soul", but I don't need the metaphysical claims around it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

all these "deleted by creator" posts in a thread about atheism sound a bit ominous. @[email protected] are you ok?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nope.

The mind is what the brain does; when the brain stops doing, the mind stops being.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No. If you can't find it in an autopsy, did it ever exist in the first place? Too many people confuse 'soul' for 'mind' (IMHO)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, I wanted to explain why I don't believe in their existance, but I couldn't write something without comming off as an asshole, so sorry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't think humans have souls. When we die, we do just that. I don't think we are so special to have something other species don't, so if we (humans) have them, then other species also can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't think humans have souls. When we die, we do just that. I don't think we are so special to have something other species don't, so if we (humans) have them, then other species also can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't think humans have souls. When we die, we do just that. I don't think we are so special to have something other species don't, so if we (humans) have them, then other species also can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It really depends on what you mean? It's a purposely, nearly obtusely, intangible concept. I'm not unwilling to talk about it if I get a proper definition, but my opinion would be a mere opinion formed from the facts I have on hand. I have some suppositions that are outside the realm of what science has been able to dig in to, but without actually factual backing, I also acknowledge that my ideas are conjecture that line up with how I perceive the world.

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