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Atheists/agnostics of Lemmy, do you believe in the existence of souls? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by azmalent@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If you do, then what exactly defines a soul in your view?

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like the difference between a computer and the software running on it

[–] ram@lemmy.ramram.ink 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, ya, if that's how you wanna define a soul, I'll say that exists.

As for the more common definitions which tend to extend to moving that software around and that software moving to the cloud in the case of a system failure, I have no reason to believe the brain has wifi, gps, or satellite functionality.

But if we simply describe it as "the software on the brain", I hold no objection and can comfortably say it exists.