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Atheists/agnostics of Lemmy, do you believe in the existence of souls?

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

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  • I believe that what defines a person is a pattern of neurons firing in the brain. I also believe that if said pattern could be perfectly replicated on some other medium (along with all the associated physiological inputs that keep it humming and changing), that new pattern would be indistinguishable from the original.

    There are infinite possible outcomes to every action, branching off from each moment. And there are also infinite parallel realities that branched off of previous moments. The pattern that is your consciousness will also branch off infinitely. But imagine a fork in the road where one direction is death. Your consciousness cannot take that route, because it no longer exists on that branch. But it DOES still exist in the other, and it has no choice but to continue onward.

    Thus, you will never experience death.

    Your consciousness may change along its beaching paths, perhaps contorting into something completely new, but it will never truly end.

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