quote:The soul concept is an ancient error, like asking where fire goes when the fuel runs out, and is still around because it is perpetuated by organized religion.
Actually this is a good analogy. As the energy stored in organic material is oxidized heat and light are released. What happens to the mind/soul when cellular respiration ceases? Conciousness. Is it based on physics and physiology or is it a emergent property of matter and energy. Is energy becoming sentient in the form of humans a inevitable cascade that occurs because the universe exists or because it wants to? I do not know the answer. No one does. Yet.