What's the evidence of a soul?

Question

So I just cloned myself. Then I made a robot version of me that has artificial intelligence. They both claim to have a soul; they can simulate all the basic emotions. How can I prove I'm the only one with a real soul ?

Answer 1

You can't prove you're the only one with the soul, because you can't even prove you have a soul.

However, I really wonder about whether or not the artificial intelligence can be shown to possess real consciousness or not. I think that is going to be a real issue before too long.

Answer 2

A true clone, no matter how much he was like you would not be you. He would have his own soul. A robot has no soul for one very obvious reason. You can shut him off and switch him back on and he is still animated. Not so with a human.

In my life, I have seen people actually die, right there while I was looking. It is an amazing thing. It is hard to describe but you can sort of sense that something has left them. They were there one second and then they were gone. You can repair the body afterwards and defibrilate the heart or hook them up to any machine you want reproducing all of the funcitions of the body but they won't be alive anymore.

If it was simply some kind of electrical energy then why won't they live anymore when you reproduce it? There is a life force in people. When it goes, it goes.

Is it a soul? Is it a spirit? Is it something else? No one knows. But it exists, that we know for sure.

To answer your question, it is evidence of something that could be a soul. You are now entering the realm of the supernatural where simple physical science has no place. Physical science cannot help us measure the unmeasurable. Whatever realm this force exists in, it is beyond anything in this realm can reach, touch or measure.

Do we just cease to exist? I doubt it. One thing we know for sure in our physical universe is that everything can change but nothing can be completely eliminated. Burn something and it breaksdown to simpler parts but it still exists. Energy expended is reabsorbed. Kill a human and the physical part breaks down eventually to simple substances again. If in our universe everything only changes, why not in other universes?

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Answer 3

Kill the robot and the clone. If they get lighter at the instant they die, it's because the soul left their body. If they stay the same weight, they didn't have souls.

Answer 4

Your very consciousness....your ability to think, reason, feel, and dream to name a few. Do you think that it is reasonable to believe that these abilities that people have and all the other complexities within the universe all started from the consummation of matter and energy billions of yrs ago? causing an explosion that just happen to put everything in the exact location that they needed to be in with absolutely no intelligence behind any of it...just random chance!!??? I do not posses so great a faith required to believe such outlandish claims... You and I and everyone else who has ever lived, are living or shall live, are eternal beings created by GOD thru JESUS CHRIST for HIS glory, to be HIS children. People can either except this or reject this. It makes no difference however. GODs plan to redeem mankind shall come about anyway. For those who except it there will be eternal life with GOD...with pleasures we cannot even imagine lavished on us by the eternal FATHER. For those who reject CHRIST even GOD, eternal separation and damnation from the presence of GOD. It doesn't matter if an individual doesn't believe it... its coming... I admonish all unbelievers to seek GOD thru CHRIST and experience life to it fullest...
~GOD BLESS YOU AND LEAD YOU INTO ALL TRUTH~

Answer 5

Where to begin...

The soul is said to be one's sense of "self" or consciousness, also the source of the will amongst other attributes. This sense cannot be touched, but it has always been as long as one has been aware of themselves. One recognizes oneself as a distinct person.

Firstly anything cloned, being human, would have a soul as they have the proper matter and form of a human being. A robot, would not have a soul as a robot would not be composed of the same matter nor have the same essence of a human being.

Paul Vitz, a christian psychologist had this to say about neuroscience:

"neuroscience does seem to be a “hard science”: it uses traditional scientific methods such as measuring change in electrical potential, its genuine findings can be replicated, and it shows systematic development over time. Like most scientific disciplines, neuroscience has its serious controversies over how to understand many of its findings. But this does not invalidate its scientific status.
Still, as I noted, the scientific character of neuroscience does not mean that the theoretical interpretations of the mind proposed by various neuroscientists are equally valid (disprove the existence of the soul). It is well known that such interpretations commonly involve various philosophical assumptions, the truth of which lies outside science."

Catholic Encyclopedia states this:

"The question of the reality of the soul and its distinction from the body is among the most important problems of philosophy, for with it is bound up the doctrine of a future life. Various theories as to the nature of the soul have claimed to be reconcilable with the tenet of immortality, but it is a sure instinct that leads us to suspect every attack on the substantiality or spirituality of the soul as an assault on the belief in existence after death. The soul may be defined as the ultimate internal principle by which we think, feel, and will, and by which our bodies are animated. The term "mind" usually denotes this principle as the subject of our conscious states, while "soul" denotes the source of our vegetative activities as well. That our vital activities proceed from a principle capable of subsisting in itself, is the thesis of the substantiality of the soul: that this principle is not itself composite, extended, corporeal, or essentially and intrinsically dependent on the body, is the doctrine of spirituality. If there be a life after death, clearly the agent or subject of our vital activities must be capable of an existence separate from the body. The belief in an animating principle in some sense distinct from the body is an almost inevitable inference from the observed facts of life. Even uncivilized peoples arrive at the concept of the soul almost without reflection, certainly without any severe mental effort. The mysteries of birth and death, the lapse of conscious life during sleep and in swooning, even the commonest operations of imagination and memory, which abstract a man from his bodily presence even while awake-all such facts invincibly suggest the existence of something besides the visible organism, internal to it, but to a large extent independent of it, and leading a life of its own."

Now, this is an incredibly, incredibly complex and highly debated issue. Philosophers, theologians and scientists have been debating this issue for years. Suffice it to say, even with the advent of neuroscience it is still reasonable to believe in the soul. I suggest you begin by reading this article but there are numerous resources that address this issue:

http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=3215&var_recherche=mind+%2B+soul

Answer 6

There is no empirical evidence of the existence of the soul. That doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist, it just means that if it does we haven't figured out how to detect and measure it yet.

Answer 7

Because real and simulated are two very different things. And if you have ever simulated anything driving etc you would know the difference.

Your artificial doppelganger cannot procreate and have children sorry but your question is fundamentally flawed.

Answer 8

build a time machine, and travel back all three at the same time , to the point in time where there was no clone and no robot. the one who remains is you.

Answer 9

Past life regression will give evidence of the soul also meditation

Anything you have wrote after you question is not even worth answering

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 10

A Doctor did a test once and calculated the amount of weight lost when you die.You loose a certain amount from not breathing and other things.When he finished his calculations he discovered that there was a small amount of weight that couldn't be accounted for.