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Do you believe you have a soul ? [Spirituality & Religion]

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Depends what you mean by soul.

If you mean "something which exists beyond the physical body and survives after it"
No.
If you mean it's something additional to the brain which makes us who we are.
No.

There are no examples of a mind existing without a body.
There are many examples of "who we are" being dependent on and altered by damage to the physical brain.
revenant · F
@Pikachu do you think you are worth anything ?
@revenant

To people who care about me? Yeah.
To people who just value a life in and of itself? Sure.

Any inherent worth? Nope. I'm no more or less valuable than any other organism and neither are you.
revenant · F
@Pikachu then I can squash you like a worm
@revenant

Why? Don't you value life?
revenant · F
@Pikachu not a worm;s life
@revenant

I'm not a worm. So why do you think you can kill me like one?
revenant · F
@Pikachu you said you were equal to any other organism
@revenant

Intrinsically yes, your life or my life has no more value than any other. But that is not the value i place on human life and it's certainly not the value that you place on it.
So what point did you think you were making?
revenant · F
@Pikachu 🤷‍♀️
@revenant

So why do you think your life is objectively more valuable than a worm's life?
revenant · F
@Pikachu absolutely
@revenant

I asked why
revenant · F
@Pikachu it is intrinsic
@revenant

Why?
revenant · F
@Pikachu dunno something I feel
@revenant Well, can't argue with that kind of justification🤷‍♀️