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It's not a yes/no question. Please tell us what you understand the word "soul" to mean. Be as specific and detailed as possible: where is it? what is it made of? where did it come from, and where is it going? If you do not believe in souls, state your objections.
I myself understand the term soul to mean a non-material part of a person, which is permanent, and capable of transcending temporary physical reality. Personally, I don't believe that humans, or any other beings possess souls. This is because a person is not an individual thing, but a process - it is the process of one's senses aquiring information from the environment, and the mind attempting to structure this information and store it in some useful form which can be recalled later.
The patterns of habit which emerge during a lifetime of this aquiring, storing, and recalling, is what we refer to as our personality. This personality is not finite, unique, and self-contained, but malleable and in constant flux. Because of this, I am no longer the person I was this morning, and by this evening, the person I am now will be gone and someone else will be temporarily inhabiting what I might (erroneously) refer to as "my body".
If I am just a continuum of constant change, how can any permanent, defining characteristics ever emerge to make up a recognizable, discrete, individual soul?
I myself understand the term soul to mean a non-material part of a person, which is permanent, and capable of transcending temporary physical reality. Personally, I don't believe that humans, or any other beings possess souls. This is because a person is not an individual thing, but a process - it is the process of one's senses aquiring information from the environment, and the mind attempting to structure this information and store it in some useful form which can be recalled later.
The patterns of habit which emerge during a lifetime of this aquiring, storing, and recalling, is what we refer to as our personality. This personality is not finite, unique, and self-contained, but malleable and in constant flux. Because of this, I am no longer the person I was this morning, and by this evening, the person I am now will be gone and someone else will be temporarily inhabiting what I might (erroneously) refer to as "my body".
If I am just a continuum of constant change, how can any permanent, defining characteristics ever emerge to make up a recognizable, discrete, individual soul?