Dualism

[Darwinian]

I feel like playing Devils Advocate, so....

Okay. So, if there WERE a spiritual world, i.e., an afterlife, a place where your soul rests before being reborn, whatever, how would you know? If it wasn't physical, how would you be able to prove that it was there? And if you DID prove it, wouldn't it be then a physical thing?
But, since it isn't physical, wouldn't that mean that it doesn't exist in the first place, not to mention, you would need proof for souls and a whole bunch of other crap.

Indeed, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence!

I'm a big fan of string/M theory. And in my little worldview of things their may be an infinite number of realms where the laws of physics may be so different that they could never make sense from 'our' perspective.

I know someone who seems to believe 'Matter' is separate to 'Mind' because he says how no one has found exactly where consciousness is yet...and he says "How do you know it's even in the brain?"--to paraphrase-- and he says how no one has found where the connection between 'Mind' and 'Matter' is...

This still remains one of the 10 mysteries of the brain, can't remember what the other 9 are..

As is brilliantly demonstrated in the film Surrogate (which was my idea first!!) you think you are wherever you perceive yourself to be.

There is no spiritual world.

Got any evidence for that?

There are as many people alive today as ever existed on the planet in its entire history. That would mean on average a person would have one past life, and many would have none.

It's a big Universe. Who says we all have to live on the Earth?