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Old 08-January-2009, 04:03 PM
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If there is a soul it has to be made up of something; it can't be nothing. This is where I think particle physics comes in, but I don't know how. If the soul is energy, it still is something, like light photons.
Could the soul/personality be the pattern of something, for example, electrical currents or potentials?

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At death there is a brief release of breath and poof… vanished. All electrical currents cease, the brain is dead/dies.

Can an electrical current just die? Can mass/energy just disappear? Does it have to become or be something else?
Yes, electrical current can just die.


Maybe computer memory is a good analogy. The soul/personality is the sum total of information stored on the RAM of the organic brain. Some types of RAM are volatile - as soon as you power down the computer, that information is lost.
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