Do we have souls?

[AlbertCat]

141. "Have you ever experienced anything you would call a soul?"

Now that to me is a much more interesting question.

Y'know, I love music, Bach and Handel.... Stevie Ray Vaughn and The Black Angels. I love art and theatre.... especially dance. In college I did plenty of acid, BTW. But within all that, I never get a feeling that leads me to a supernatural conclusion. I find the supernatural so unsatisfying that I simply reject it as any kind of plausible answer to anything. And since my rejection of the supernatural, my love of art has only increased. It's a mystery to me how, say, a Rothko painting can move me.... but it can. Ascribing it to brain function does not diminish the sensation at all. It makes me marvel at the brain.... the one that did the painting and the ones that interpret it.

I know I sound rude, but that's just because I give no fuzzy warm deferrals to poetic explanations that haven't considered the scientific method and its revelations. That pisses off people who take these things personally. That's my failing.

But I am not trying to be disruptive. I want "spiritual" ideas explained. If they are so important to someone, they should take the time to explain them. So I play devil's advocate.