12th Mar 2010
How can one scientifically prove the existence of a soul within a living person?I believe that question can be answered within the guideline for low-priced
questions - basically you get a link or two - not an essay:
1) soul is a term used in common language - there is no definition
in any of the sciences. Therefore, there cannot be a proof, or even a
discussion which would be 'scientific'.
2) There are two school in philosophy : monism and dualism.
Currently, monism (and in particular materialims) prevails.
Best recent description of the issue and scientific (materialistic)
view can be found in
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/279/5359/2048
or
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/15718;jsessionid=aaa7yKBjWideBP
Those are reviews. I recommend you borrow the book. It has section on
religion, however, it explains evrything in terms of today's physics
(meaning, no concept like soul was found useful so far).
If you want a view based on possible future physics, look at
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=261933
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