Tristero thinks he has refuted my denial of the existence of souls by citing Otis Redding's soul, but I reject his refutation! He has done it by the sneaky tactic of a strategic redefinition of "soul", away from 'magic essence of personal identity independent of the material substrate of the brain' to 'smokin” hot passionate musicality', and I must call shenanigans. Shenanigans, I say!
I could be refuted, however, if Redding's soul were to possess my body and set me to crooning "These arms of mine" down the hallway right now.
Actually, there are many moments when it would be useful to be possessed by Otis Redding. He never does.
More like this
A game company hid a tiny little clause inside their long boring legal disclaimer that gave them the ownership of your immortal soul. Apparently, Gamestation now owns 7500 souls.
I'm being prayed for.
A prayer for the soul of PZ Meyers
This is what the Pope's astronomer says:
Any entity — no matter how many tentacles it has — has a soul.
In PZ's class we're reading and discussing Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer. This non-fiction book follows the journey that neurobiology has made throughout its history.