Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
Though if the only thing something does is protect you from possession, calling it a 'soul' seems like a stretch (really, anything other than full-up dualism seems problematic for calling it a soul, meaning the soulless would probably lack free will and a sense of self).
|
I'd actually be more inclined to the other extreme - a soul that does anything detectable is not a soul. Souls are a residue of Platonic philosophy - they're the "essence" of you. Anything you can detect is an "accident". A significant part of their philosophical function is to distinguish between you and an utterly identical copy that cannot be told apart from you, as a refutation of an interpretation of resurrection as creating you "again".