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

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not inconclusive, it's improvable which basically means "why even bother?"

[–] ritswd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t disagree with “why even bother”. But again following the scientific method, it wasn’t proven to be improvable. Scientifically speaking, we just don’t know.

I realize it’s not a very comforting thought, though. And I don’t mind people who believe otherwise.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

it wasn’t proven to be improvable

If it's something invisible with no physical manifestation (as the soul is thought to be by the believers), it's quite literally improvable.