# The Souls of our Ancestors

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**Created:** [June 25, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-souls-of-our-ancestors/486 "2018-06-25T23:28:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/the-souls-of-our-ancestors/486/13 "2018-06-26T22:35:29Z")

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> [@Patrick](#):
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> > Everyone believes in a soul of some sort
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> Not everyone. There is absolutely no science that supports any notion of a soul that remains after the brain has ceased functioning. Certainly not neuroscience.

One definition of a soul is our consciousness. May this lives on after we die, or not. This is the definition used frequently in SciFi, see for example _Altered Carbon_. @Patrick, do you not agree we have a consciousness?

And I agree, there is no science that supports it lives beyond our body. Even some Chrisitians believe that, thinking that human minds can’t exist independent of a body! I never said everyone believes in an immortal soul, just that everyone affirms a soul of some sort or another.

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