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Old 07-24-2008, 09:29 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale View Post
One interesting point that hasn't come up yet is that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only transformed from one form to another.

Our brains do utilize chemical and even electrical energy which what one could argue is the basis of the "spirit" or "soul". When our body eventually dies, this energy has to go somewhere.
The energy has to go somewhere, but that doesn't mean a soul goes somewhere. Before our brain existed, where was the soul? It seems likely to me that when the brain dies, the self dies with it.
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