Even if there is a soul, however one should define it, all evidence leads us to the conclusion that when we die we will forever cease to experience anything. For the soul, again supposing that it exists, evidently depends upon the body to experience anything, and the body is dissolved and destroyed at death.Destroy a man's eye or arm and the soul is powerless and unable, without these parts of the body, to experience certain sensations associated with them. And if one damages the brain directly in certain ways, the soul can become incapable of thought and memory. Can anyone then maintain that when every part of the body is rotted away that we will still be capable of seeing, hearing, feeling and so forth?
>>18391417My counter is, "Why are we even created at all, then?"Because, suppose it all began with nothing. That means from nothing can emerge something.If it all began with something, why believe it ends? That means something is eternal, it has no beginning. Why assume it had an ending?You have no memory of before your life, but that does not mean you did not exist. It only proves you forgot.Lol.
>>18391504>You have no memory of before your lifeWrong! When Trump was president it was good to win.
>>18391504We are not created by anything for any purpose. We arise out of matter, motion and chance, simply because it was possible that we could. And we do not forget what happened before our birth, there was nothing to forget, our bodies did not yet exist, and there is no experience apart from the body. And it is nonsensical to speak of a self before any experience, the notion of the self is derived from experience. And why believe experience can end? Because we observe it end constantly, when we sleep or when our organs are damaged, causing us to become blind, for instance, and cease to experience visual phenomena.
