Are we purely material beings or do we have souls?

Nup Jan you have it totally arse up. The onus is on you to show that that we are separate from our body, or since it is the question in the OP, to show we have a soul.
That's just as mythical, just as unevidenced, and just as nonsensical as saying we have any evidence for the existence of any god/s.
We have been waiting a long time Jan for you to come up with that evidence. Methinks you are pissing into the wind.

 

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It should be soooo easy to find and product evidence for / of a soul

There are thousands of medical text books, surely one would provide extensive details about a soul

Methinks you are pissing into the wind.

You sure it's Jan or Jan's soul?

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I’ll leave that to you and Alex.

The op asks to explain why we believe we have a soul. Can you not read?
I have easily fulfilled that task.
I have even gone over and beyond the question to show that we are the soul.
Now it’s time to sit back and see what type of rebuttal, people like you will bring to the table.

And the atheism begins!

Well wait no longer, the evidence has already been put forward.
Try and rebut it.
I dare you.

Methinks you do very little thinking.

 

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Alex and I have simply stated fact that we have no evidence for any mythical soul.

I've answered. Can you not read?

Baseless rhetorical nonsensical posts and claims, do not in anyway show, indicate or prove we have a soul.

Rebuttal rests simply on the fact that your rhetoric has achieved nothing...no evidence for any soul at all. Just regurgitated nonsense your overlords have been drilling into you.

Atheism has nothing to do with the subject. There simply is no evidence for any soul or any other supernatural nonsense you chose to spew out.

What evidence? Your say so rhetoric? No sorry, that's not worth the keyboard you are typing this stuff out on.
You offer nothing, zilch, nada.

 

You are assuming the mind is a part of the body. Can you show that it is?

You brought it up.
I want to see it through.
I’ve already given my reason why I believe.
Now I want to know why you think the mind is a part of the physical body?
What are physical properties of mind?

Occam’s razor suggests the explanations that require the least assumption, is usually correct.
It favours my explanation as I have made no assumptions. You on the other hand assume the mind is is physical. An added assumption .

Procreation.

 

I beg to differ.

That’s not rebuttal.
Once again I have to wonder why you are here if you have no intention of discussing in a proper manner.
If you think my points are baseless, explain why you think so by going through them. Otherwise you are just simply trolling.

It has everything to do with your response.
Otherwise explain how you know there is no evidence. And explain why you think my explanation is baseless rhetoric.

So what are you here for, other than to troll?

 

This may be so but in a way it is not at all obvious that we are separate from our body...in fact the opposite appears to be the case.
I think that you want so much to find the god story is true you jump at anything that may back up the notion that your soul goes on and your body does...it is wishful thinking unfortunately unsupported...but if you wish to believe it go ahead but why do you need to chat about it?
Chatting will not make a soul real.
Alex

 

How so.?

So what if you do?
Let’s see if you can come up with rebuttals.

I’m responding to the op, in a discussion forum.
Why are you here?

 

That was shown to you in post #63, no need to keep repeating questions that have been answered.

 

You made some vague claim that the mind is a process of the brain. IOW the mind is the brain.
The brain is the brain. Can you show me the mind?

 

No - the mind is not the brain any more than the beat is the heart. Mind is what the brain does.

 

So the mind plays a similar role in the brain, to the physical process of a beating heart?
Is that what you’re alluding to?

 

The mind is the process of the brain, it is not the physical components of the brain; ie. frontal lobe, cortex, cerbelum, etc. The processes are thinking, imagining, etc. For example, you might have an image of your God in your mind, that image is not your brain, it is a result of the process of the brain which is called the mind.

 

You don’t know that the mind is a process of the brain. It could just as easily be a process of consciousness that connects it to the brain.
No doubt you’re going to say consciousness is a process of the brain. Another claim you can’t possibly know via empirical knowledge, especially as no one can demonstrate what it is, how it works, or where it resides. It is a complete mystery. Hence the term “ the problem of consciousness”.
Nice try but no cigar.

 

Beg and differ all you like, it is a fact: That fact being there is no evidence for a soul, or anything like a soul.

Of course it is! Let me again say, there is no evidence for any soul, caprice? If there is then you have yet to show that evidence. What other sort of manner do you want me to post in? Simply agree with you and your preaching? Not bloody likely old fella, I did that as a 5 year old then matured to understand science and the scientific method, and the evidence that goes with it.

I only need two points Jan, [1] You claim we have a supernatural soul: [2] You have yet to show me any evidence of such. That's it pure and simple.

See above. In the meantime, and again, Atheism has nothing to do with the subject. There simply is no evidence for any soul or any other supernatural nonsense you chose to spew out. In other words anything supernatural is a baseless and unscientific concept. You have yet to refute that with any contrary evidence.

The evidence available in this and other threads, show conclusively that it is actually you trolling, redefining words and generally being untruthful.
I'll go along with the evidence.

 

Can you show me the soul?

 

Just think it thru...there are two sides to all coins.

Let's see you provide something worth rebutting.

Entertainment which I thank you for providing...

Alex

 

The symptom of the soul is consciousness. So I don’t really have to show it, as it is self-evident.

 

You should publish this painstaking scientific discovery in a science journal.