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Do you believe the that you have a soul? (feddit.nu)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[+] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] xhieron 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Really? I'd be very interested in seeing a peer reviewed article in Nature in which someone reputable claims to have disproven the existence of the soul (especially without making a bunch of other ontological assumptions first). Can you point me to one?

As far as I can tell, the existence of a soul, like the existence of God, is inherently a non-scientific proposition--i.e., it is not falsifiable. But correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It is primarily not falsifiable, because there is no clear definition of a soul. But something not being falsifiable or provable also means that it has no impact on reality. If it had an impact, we could measure that impact to prove that it's there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

pretty sure both of those concepts have only remained 'unfalsifiable' via the immense power of shifting the goalposts whenever the evidence disproves them until they become so removed from reality as to be essentially meaningless.

[–] daddyjones 1 points 10 months ago

It hasn't answered it because it simply isn't within the scope of science to be able to answer it. As has been pointed out elsewhere, you can't point to any peer reviewed papers listing the evidence against a soul.

At best you can play the "no evidence" card, which underlines my point that science cannot prove/disprove it because it's out of scope.