Arguments against Soul

[Succubus]

How do we know that a soul is detectable by those means?

The memory capacity of the human brain is about one Terabyte. This does not mean our brains are full to the 1tb capacity, not everyone speaks twenty languages or can memorise the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church. It matters not if a brain is half empty or full, this is still an enormous amount of data to be correlated, indexed and filed away for quick access. That big fatty lump of meat in our heads does a very good job of this, mostly.

I am told that upon the event of my death a snapshot of my entire life is recorded by an as yet unidentified process, in an as yet unidentified medium. Since the beginning of the Christian story these souls now number in the many billions and in order for them to function they need a power source, an energy supply, which would be all pervasive throughout the universe and if such a force were to exist it would stand out like a diamond on a goat's arse.

One of more of these:

1. Gravitational Force
   
2. Weak Nuclear Force.
   
3. Electromagnetic Force.
   
4. Strong Nuclear Force.
   

Would spot it. But they don't. Here's why.

Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws of physics underlying everyday life are completely understood, and there’s no way within those laws to allow for the information stored in our brains to persist after we die. If you claim that some form of soul persists beyond death, what particles is that soul made of? What forces are holding it together? How does it interact with ordinary matter?

There's no way around this. But that won't stop you from trying.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blo...-the-soul/

Is there anything that reasonable people hold to be real which isn't detectable by those means?

Love?*

*I've been waiting fucking years for the opportunity to throw that one back.