Arguments against Soul

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What do you guys here think, what is the best argument against the existence of the soul (and therefore ghosts and afterlives)?
I used to think that the "Damage of the middle of the brain leads to two distinct personalities governing halves of the body." was an argument that would convince anybody, but, evidently, it won't. See here:
How do people who believe in souls explain away the fact that epileptic patients who have the middle of their brain severed appear to have two distinct personalities governing halves of their bodies?
In short, people respond with "Where is some reliable source for that claim?", and, to be honest, I am not sure what would be a reliable source for this. My psychology textbook saying that isn't really good evidence that's true, is it? I mean, my Croatian history textbook tells me most scientists agree Global Flood really happened.
Perhaps the best response to that is "And where is some reliable source of the claims about Maria's Shoe, and other things that supposedly prove the existence of soul?", what do you think?

From a theistic view: the word "soul" is a Germanic word. Martin Luther translated the original languages of the bible into German before it was translated into English. Unfortunately, into English, the word was borrowed instead of translating the original languages.

The idea of an "immaterial" part of man came from the Greeks. When Alexander the Great conquered the world, hundreds of years before Jesus, he brought Aristotle everywhere he went, including when Alexander conquered Jerusalem. Since there is little said in the Old Testament about an afterlife, the Jews asked Aristotle about that. Aristotle told them that there is a material and immaterial part of man. Unfortunately, it stuck.


Without quoting verses to you, the Hebrew and Greek words of the original languages of the bible are merely talking about breathing. Hebrew, nephesh: Greek, psuchE: both refer to the natural act of breathing and are used figuratively to refer to natural instinctive breathing intellect. The word in the Greek translated as "spirit"(transliterated, and not translated, from the Latin 'spiritus' which means breathing) is pneuma in the original Greek and can refer to life but is usually used figuratively to refer to information gleaned from an exterior source. When the OT says, "Animals have a soul but they do not have a spirit" merely means that animals have a natural instinctive intellect but they can't read a book.


Generally, pneuma is an inhale and psuchE is an exhale. Man does NOT have a spirit, or a soul. That is theological and not biblical. But, man does have a kardia translated as 'heart' which figuratively, and not literally, refers to the innermost being of man. The seat of who we are including our passions and desires, likes and dislikes. The info in is pneuma. What comes out of our mouth is psuchE. Good pneuma info in is beneficial and bad pneuma in is useless. Garbage in, garbage out. Treasure in, Treasure out. 


I hope this makes sense.