The problem of the soul

[Spongebob]

I personally think that the soul was discovered in our age: it's the "electrical current" operating our brains.

I see a problem there for anyone who believes in eternal life:  All electrical activity in the brain ceases at the time of brain death.  Bye bye, soul...

That is without doubt a dead end idea.  There have even been those to suggest that the soul has mass and thus can be measured at the time of death, but has never been substantiated.

However, there's plenty of conjecture that the soul is something indestructible and non-corporeal.  Of course if that is true, then what chance does humanity have at detecting it?  We can only speculate.  That speculation could also lead to question what relation the soul has with the personality.  Are the two the same?  Does one inform the other?  What if I said I wrote a computer program and ran it on a computer in good condition and it performed very well.  Then the computer was damaged in some way and the program performed poorly.  What if someone then took a hammer and bashed the computer to bits.  Is the program gone forever?  I wrote it, so couldn't I just write it again and run it on another computer?  The program is just information, which cannot be destroyed.  Now, this is just an analogy, but it parallels the quantum no-hiding theorem.