Arguments against Soul

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qualia

What makes you think it's real? If it were real, how come do all or nearly all people report irritation when they hear high-frequency sounds, yet nobody reports irritation when they hear low-frequency sounds? If qualia were real, we would expect some people to report irritation when they hear low-frequency sounds, right?

qualitative consciousness

What does that mean?

determinism

Determinism is impossible by the laws of physics, such as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Nothing to discuss here.

free will

Free will exists in the sense that determinism is impossible at the quantum level, and of course some quantum effects play a role in our brain. But that's all there is, it causes our brains, as well as our computers, to make mistakes sometimes.

mind

All that we know about mind points to it being generated by the physical brain. Had computers existed back in the day, probably no philosopher would suggest mind is immaterial.

NDE

Anecdotal evidence of the lowest possible quality. Many NDEs contain hallucinatory features, such as encountering living persons or demonstrably fictional characters in the transcendental realm, and the right inference from that is that all NDEs are hallucinations.

supernatural

Supernatural explanations can't be scientifically tested and there is every reason to dismiss them. And they have a horrible track record of being always superseded by a scientific natural explanation (in antiquity, people used to believe earthquakes were a sign of God, now we know they aren't...).

morality

The fact that some actions lead to good consequences and some lead to bad consequences doesn't require any kind of supernatural explanation. And good and evil are easily defined in terms of natural realm: evil is simply that which causes suffering.

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I'd be more than happy to discuss my views on souls down 1 or maybe 2 of these paths at a time, but in this format it would take far too much of my little time to do them all. Do you have one or two you'd particularly care to discuss. You seem ambivalent at some and irked by others so I'd like to not presume your preference.

Assuming the existence of something which we don't even understand because you would like to be "the best answer" means absolutely nothing.

And so you'd obvious rather not define and discuss souls when presented the opportunity to, noted.

@Gae Bolga it wasn't an exhaustive list of reasons, simply a path for the conversation to move into as I've thought about those areas with relationship to souls. I'm always up for other directions as well. Do you have any suggestions?