There is a thought experiment that I figured out when thinking about teleportation which leans towards as having souls.
Imagine teleportation, you disappear in one place and appear in the other, seems normal right? Now imagine teleportation done atom by atom, which would briefly kill you but you would be built from the same atoms 1 second later in different place. How do we know that would be you and not a clone? Now think about dying, but 1 day later someone rearranges your dead body atoms to resurrect you. It would be logical that it would indeed be you right? Same case scenario but somebody mixes your atoms with 5 identical copies of your body, and revives them, what decides which copy would be you?
Maybe you wouldn’t be resurrected at all and those would all be clones? The only thing I can think of, that solves this problem would be a soul. You would be conscious in the body that your soul has gone into. You can’t be 5 humans at once. Or maybe something else is a deciding factor? The other solution to that problem would be a simulation. But even then a soul like system would have to be implemented. What do you guys think? Maybe someone has figured out another answer to that problem?
I am not a soul believer but my current knowledge and logic seems to lean towards that direction, as the only solution I can think of that would solve this problem. But what physics would decide how souls behave is an even more difficult question.
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