Just a thought, after discussing with an atheist about the idea of "souls". How can I know that I didn't just replace my previous religion with a belief system that just allows me to like things that I want and that, subconsciously, I don't believe it at all, but I feel I have to believe in something? That it is just comforting?
For the record, the discussion on souls was that souls cannot exist (their side) in any meaningful ways, and certainly can't be eternal, as either they do all the work of the brain, in which case we wouldn't need a brain, or that the brain does all the work in processing sensory information, storing and retrieving, in which case if the soul is eternal, it has nothing to work with and may as well not exist. I don't know if that made any sense, but if it does, what do you make of that argument?
For the record, the discussion on souls was that souls cannot exist (their side) in any meaningful ways, and certainly can't be eternal, as either they do all the work of the brain, in which case we wouldn't need a brain, or that the brain does all the work in processing sensory information, storing and retrieving, in which case if the soul is eternal, it has nothing to work with and may as well not exist. I don't know if that made any sense, but if it does, what do you make of that argument?
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