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

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

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

I don’t know if that’s what you were implying, but I’m not at all a theist. And as a scientist, I can remind you that the scientific method is to keep researching topics that are inconclusive. To conclude something as non-existent because the research is inconclusive is not the scientific method.

What you are doing is listening to the science indeed, and drawing faith-based conclusions that something doesn’t exist because it wasn’t proven to exist. Which is fine, a lot of people do that to base all kinds of faiths, but it’s disingenuous to pretend that you’re not.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

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

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 1 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.

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