Is the "soul" memory?
Is the "soul" personality?
If you answer no to both, which you should considering brain damage alters both, then the idea of a "soul" becomes meaningless. Without your memory and personality it would simply be a cardboard cut out that did not even resemble anything of the person you were, rendering it a moot concept.
Is the "soul" personality?
If you answer no to both, which you should considering brain damage alters both, then the idea of a "soul" becomes meaningless. Without your memory and personality it would simply be a cardboard cut out that did not even resemble anything of the person you were, rendering it a moot concept.
I would more generally advocate that one only leave one entrance into their mind(reason), and keep the rest of it rather closed, as it is one hell of a lot easier to shovel shit in than it is to get it out.
If the evidence and reason for you to believe something isn't really any better than the reason you should believe some rural farmer from Arkansas got anally probed by interstellar visitors, then you probably shouldn't.
If the evidence and reason for you to believe something isn't really any better than the reason you should believe some rural farmer from Arkansas got anally probed by interstellar visitors, then you probably shouldn't.