Arguments against Soul

[Belacqua]

@Belaqua

Do you think souls exist?

I'm waiting for someone to tell me what a soul is, so I can answer that question.

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I am a materialist, and so, I think that your mind ("you") is entirely and completely the activity of your brain, nothing more.  When you die someday, you will cease to exist.  Think of death as an endless, dreamless "sleep" from which one will never, ever awake.

Right, I understand that. But here you're talking about mind again, not soul.

Do you have some argument as to why mind and soul must be identical?

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The link that says Physics and the Immortality of the Soul?

Oops! My mistake. I apologize! 

Somehow I got to the page on the same site called "Seriously, The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Really Are Completely Understood." 

I will go read the correct page now.

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OK, I read the correct page this time.

He is defining soul as:

Very roughly speaking, when most people think about an immaterial soul that persists after death, they have in mind some sort of blob of spirit energy that takes up residence near our brain, and drives around our body like a soccer mom driving an SUV.

I don't know what "spirit energy" is, but if it is in some way related to the kind of energy that physics studies, then yes, physics should be able to study it.

For the record, I don't see any reason to think that kind of soul exists.

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Don't be silly. She's not here for that, she's just asking questions.

Just to avoid confusion:

Belaqua is a boy's name, and I'm a boy.

From Wikipedia:

Belacqua is a minor character in Dante's Purgatorio, Canto IV. He is considered the epitome of indolence and laziness.