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I don't see it like that. I mean, just because the player character in a video game dies, does not mean that there was never a player controlling it. That's the kind of relationship I think the immortal soul could have with its physical body; the latter is just a temporary avatar for the former...

Actually, they already did to a certain extent; back in 1998, with the film adaptation of What Dreams May Come: A lot of my thoughts on the afterlife were inspired by having watched that movie at a young age.

Do you know what existed before the Big Bang? Everything has to start somewhere; that does not mean they must therefore end in the same place. Or that they have to end period; change is also a possibility, from one form to another. Consider your baby teeth; in a vacuum, a child could easily...

How? They have no mouths to speak, no hands to touch, no physical form that we can detect; they left that behind to rot when they died. We live in a deeply connected society; people expect to be able to communicate with anyone at any time, no matter how much distance separates them. That, I...

Imagine I took you back in time 2000 years, and told you the prove the existence of atoms to the people of that time, using only the tools they have at their disposal; do you think you could accomplish such a task? We're not even capable of observing more than a fraction of a fraction of our own...

It's kinda hard to find any proof one way or the other. I mean, for all we know, we're all going to get reincarnated into a fantasy world, isekai-style. Or maybe there is an afterlife, but only a select few get to go there; with everyone else getting their souls broken apart and recycled into...

In my opinion, the only verifiable truth regarding death is that we all leave a corpse behind. What this means is that, if there is an afterlife (and I have seen no evidence to suggest that there isn't one), our continued sense of self is going to rely on us being able to function without all...