The problem of the soul

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Simply because plasma doesn’t last long in a terrestrial environment doesn’t preclude it from being matter.

In a very real sense, ALL matter is in a transitional state. But what do you mean by ‘long lasting’? As we’ve agreed, the sun is a big, burning ball of plasma, and it has existed for more than four and a half billion years. It is expected to continue in this state for another five billion years. That’s more than half the current age of the universe. So, none of your silly arsed assertions that plasma isn’t matter seem to hold up.

Every physicist in the world agrees that plasma is matter, but - to you - it isn’t, ‘...even if science said so...’.

Stupid.

Boru

The sun only exists because it has a huge, almost uncountable reserve of fuel that is keeping "the plasma state" intact. Soon enough it will cease to be a ball of plasma when its fuel runs out -just like all stars-.

It is a transitional state. Time is irrelevant when the universe is what we're discussing. Billions of years are but a fraction to God after all.

Being in a transitional state is not a disqualification. ALL matter is in a transitional state. Does water cease to be matter simply because it freezes or evaporates?

EVERYTHING made of massy particles is matter. There are no exceptions to this.

Boru