Arguments against Soul

[EgoDeath]

I'll give you one last shot, @Belaqua.

You'd said that soul exists. Great job!

Now, in a concise, clear way, can you define what you call "soul" for me?

Once again, no need to go through the whole rigamarole about Aristotle and your other favorite philosophers and all that. Just a sentence or two defining what you think the "soul" is.

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...So let's take as an example the muscles in your leg. They have both matter and form [soul]. The matter, I guess, is flesh. The form is the way the flesh is structured, and the things it does. But obviously, the things it does depend on the presence of the flesh -- the form or soul isn't there if the flesh isn't there. And the flesh depends for its existence (as flesh) on the form, because flesh which lost its form would decay immediately, into whatever the constituent parts are...

I think you're taking the piss.

He's very good at talking a whole lot while not actually saying anything. It's a skill, I suppose.