Soul and Self

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I see no evidence for a transcendantly based, immortal soul
that survives physical death, but there is plenty of evidence for an
immanent, mortal, brain-based, emergent self (implied by the term
'self-consciousness') which cannot survive separate from its
generating physical substrate.

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