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And do believe that I, this random guy on the internet has a soul

I personally don't believe that I anyone else has a soul. From my standup I don't se any reason to believe that our consciousness and our so called "soul" would be any more then something our brain is making up.

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[โ€“] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I believe that my consciousness is a thing I can point to as being my essence. You could maybe call that a soul, or you could maybe not. Either way, my consciousness is the collective consciousness of countless single-celled organisms all working to make my singular self function. You could maybe call the manifestation of all these processes into a greater thinking singularity as a "soul", more akin to the way in which a city might have a "soul" made up by the people that live in it. I don't believe I have a ghost, and I believe that my consciousness is conditional, derived from my biology, but consciousness itself is as good as anything to call a soul

So I guess, in short, no XD

[โ€“] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There is at least as much evidence for dragons and magic and Greek gods as there is for a soul, so no.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It boggles my mind that out of the two options, someone would choose to believe in none of these when you could just as easily believe in all of them.

[โ€“] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Much as I would love to believe in dragons, belief is not usually a choice.