(September 16, 2013 at 9:22 am)MythRat Wrote: Assume for the sake of argument that souls exist and are something physically definable.
I'm not sure why anyone would make such an assumption - other than for argument's sake as you say. It makes no more sense than to suggest that ones character exists and is something physically definable. If ones character exists at all it is not as something physical but rather as a hypothetical tendency in ones actions. To think that the soul is a physical thing is just ignorant. So any argument that begins this way will only be applicable to those whose understanding is poor. That isn't to say there won't be many, many people whose idea of the soul is this poor. There certainly are. But what's in it for us to point out the obvious, other than as an effort to lift the masses? Alas, we all know how well these sorts of efforts tend to work for their intended audience. Confirmation bias is not so easily overcome.
