On 6/21/05, Kevin Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert J. Chassell (no mistake this time) really did write: > > But what if the two are exactly identical in all > > observable and feelable ways, being carbon based and atomically the > > same? If you believe in a soul, is it transmitted? (Neither you nor > > those more personally involved can tell one way or the other.) > > Theologically, is the original dead? Should we consider the two who > > live as being imposters? Or has one soul become two? > > > > Legally, what is right? > > That's a tough question. Not knowing anything about the soul, I'd still go > with them being two different people, since one can experience things that > the other cannot. (Kick the real guy in the shin, and the computer version > won't feel the pain.) But if they were linked together in some weird quantum > entanglement way... One is the smallest divisible unit of a soul? Can souls become entangled? Is the soul a part of the brain or some energy that surrounds the body? Does a soul enter the body at the first breath? Does it come into being upon implantation or before? Does each sperm carry a partial soul? How many can dance on the head of a pin? Are souls useful, scientific, or testable concepts? How much is a soul worth? Do animals have souls? Do uplifted animals have souls?
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