Asklemmy

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.

Nope

Agnostic here.

I do not think what people refer to as 'souls' has to have a physical existence nor a spiritual existence (whatever that means). What I think is that the word 'soul' refers to the sum total of a person's feelings, thoughts, and actions. That entity, even though it doesn't have any physical existence, could have effects that can be argued to be immortal.

Well, I use the word "soul" to sum up what makes a person a person, their base values, moral standpoint, what they love and hate etc. The warmth of a person. In the same way I would say that somebody forfeits their soul because of their acts. And I'd argue that our soul "lives on" after we die in the people we've made an impression on or in general through the effects of our actions. But some magic person-container? No. We die and then we're dead.

I don't believe it, but I some times wonder if some kind of self is preserved as energy within the universe somehow. Effectively being a soul, but in a sense of physics more than spirituality. Much like how the physical body will decay and return to the earth, the energy that makes up consciousness could simply return to the universe.

No, absolutely not

As soon as someone gives me a good reason to, I'll believe it.

So probably never.

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.

No, obviously not. The existance of souls is an equally non-falsifiable hypothesis as the existance of a god.

I kinda do but I believe that a soul is just what drives a person in their lifetime. It is made up of their thoughts, emotions, and experiences. After a person dies their soul goes too and that’s the end of it.

No. All evidence points towards “you” being nothing more than your body. Mess with the brain and the whole personality can change. What would then constitute the soul if it’s completely divorced from both physical reality and who you subjectively are as a person?

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.

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)

No. Soul = personality, nothing magic.

No

In my opinion, souls probably don't exist. In the absence of evidence that they do, I will assume they don't. However, to quote Carl Sagan, "the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." There's so much about the universe we do not (and maybe cannot ever) know, so perhaps there is something like a soul that continues and our conscious doesn't end at death, but I don't think so.

Asking where does the soul go when we die is like asking what happens to a flame when it's no longer burning, or what happens to the windows operating system when a computer is decommissioned. Ultimately, we are the human operating system.

Im apatheist, so like agnostic just that i think that even if some god exists it would be totally irrelevant for us. I always viewed the soul as more of the mental state of a person rather than some "magic" energy which makes one up. We have our physical form and then we have whats controlling the physicial form, little voltages all through our body and especially brain. That somehow was always the soul to me. And when we die the systems holding those small voltages up stop working and our soul fades away while our physical form persists.

"Lots of things happen after you die. They just don't involve you"! Probably George Carlin. My wife and I disagree on souls. She thinks she's seen one and I think they are product of religious indoctrination and have no basis in (any) reality.