The "soul" stuff

[Ben Davis]

Let's say that a man has some sort of heart problem, his heart fails and stops... and some minutes later he's gone.
Let's say now that the exact moment after he's gone, we "fix" his heart and everything else that was hurt during the "dying process"... I don't think he will live again... will he?

Yes, he will. In fact I've done it myself. 3 times. So far in my life, I've been dead for an accumulative total of just over 5 minutes.

So the basic question is... do you believe there is a "soul"? Something more than electrical impulses that fire up neurons in our brain?

Assuming a simple, generic, popular definition of 'soul' as 'disembodied personality/mind': no, I don't believe in them. There's no evidence that souls exists or even could exist.

Maybe the actual question is what life is and how is it triggered when all the "body stuff" is in place and ready to start clicking?
Thanx in advance for sharing your thoughts!

There are fairly well established bio-chemical and bio-electrical causes for individual life. If you mean 'Life', not all the details are known but enough has been discovered for us to be almost conclusively sure that naturalistic, chemical processes gave rise to the first life-forms.