Death

[Adjusted Sanity]

"It could be" just about anything that your imagination wants it to be. If you're going to make stuff up for the sake of personal comfort or convenience, why stop at the philosophical equivalent of a hard drive? Without anything to tie the concept into reality, it's all fluff and white noise.

That's exactly what I think a soul is. A hard drive. It would be an efficient way of preserving one's self. which is what a soul is supposed to do in theory.

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If we discover souls it merely means reality is far more complex than we originally thought. It doesn't thereby confirm the existence of places/states such as Heaven or Hell that are associated with religious beliefs and theology.

I don't believe in heaven and hell anyway. makes no sense to punish us for being human. Of course the "spirit world" could just be a totalitarian dictatorship. Which would suck pretty hard.