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Ah, you call the soul a subtle thing, but you can't even tell me what it does. What good is a soul that doesn't do anything?heh, if we knew those answers, that would be pretty amazing knowledge. Certainly I won't claim to know that much even about physical consciousness even (having read many articles)! Even just for physical consciousness -- you could learn quickly (if you like) that while there are many theories about how consciousness arises in the brain, that also it's widely agreed that we just don't really understand yet how even just physical consciousness arises. I'm trying to point out even for what we know something about, even there the knowledge is limited. How much worse for the subtle thing called spirit or soul.
It is clear to me that the brain thinks and that the brain stores memories. At death it is gone. You seem to think of the soul as some kind of backup. When the hard disk crashes, no problem, you have a complete backup on the cloud that goes up to the clouds. But if God is simply building a new you from that something, how can that really be you? And why doesn't he just go ahead and do it now? He could run the backup routine, put a couple of dozen of you in heaven, and let "you" enjoy heaven right now 36 times simultaneously. But you would know that you were still on earth, and that those 3 dozen copies in heaven are just copies. Likewise, if God somehow makes a quick brain dump, and transfers all that is you to this something that survives death, what prevents him from doing it just once, and why do you really care about the happiness of that copy (or copies)?
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