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Soul - your views on it?
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Does it exist or not exist and if it does what do you think it is?
I had an idea about this and will share it when I have 10mins free to explain, now I'm going out to get pissed.  
Doesn't exist. Never has, never will.
Succint enough for you? Moving on now. 
Nothing is your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull. - George Orwell
UGH...here we go again.
Tack..I will not get into this with you again...if you can read this post 
We just discussed this in my philosophy class. It stemmed from the question as to whether we change or not. Am I the same person I was years or even minutes ago? Not really, Im older, more knowledgable etc. But I am still me. This, according to my philosophy teacher, signified a constant presence a "soul" as he says. Personally I dont agree, simply because its not observable and consciousness is dependent upon the brain right? And that ceases to function at death. Im interested to see everyone elses answers.
If I die and god is real, im so screwed.
Science has proven time and time again that the seat of consciousness is electro-chemical in the brain. When the brain dies, electro-chemical processes stop.
In other words, souls are fiction. Just like Kharma. 
Of course it doesn't exist. It is not a part of the human body, because if it was it would have been found a long time ago. It could be something like our imagination (the best and the worst thing we have), something that only exists in your head. But can you "use" it? Can you "access" it? No. It is just a concept made up by man, just like god and afterlife.
No such thing as a soul. We are 100% brain. Bio-chemical. When it shuts down, so do we.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity. Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist. You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.  
If you've ever been put under for surgery I think you'd have your answer.
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