Questions For People Who Believe in Souls

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When did human ancestors acquire souls?

When does a developing fetus acquire a soul?

Do people with severe brain damage still have souls ... or does the soul exit the body before the body is technically dead?

Would it be possible for future generations to create a machine with a soul?

Do aliens have souls?

Q5. Aliens don't exist. If you believe they do then prove it.

Every human is supposed to have a soul.

It's supposed to occur at the moment of conception.

It's supposed to exit the body when someone is technically dead.

God is supposed to be the only one who can create a soul.

They do if God gave them one.

Language deprivation experiments have been attempted several times through history, isolating infants from the normal use of spoken or signed language in an attempt to discover the fundamental character of human nature or the origin of language.
In history

Ancient records suggest that this kind of experiment was carried out from time to time. An early record of an experiment of this kind can be found in Herodotus's Histories. According to Herodotus, the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik I carried out such an experiment, and concluded the Phrygian race must antedate the Egyptians since the child had first spoken something similar to the Phrygian word bekos, meaning "bread".[2] However, it is likely that this was a willful interpretation of their babbling.[3][4]

An experiment allegedly carried out by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the 13th century saw young infants raised without human interaction in an attempt to determine if there was a natural language that they might demonstrate once their voices matured. It is claimed he was seeking to discover what language would have been imparted unto Adam and Eve by God.

The experiments were recorded by the monk Salimbene di Adam in his Chronicles, who wrote that Frederick encouraged "foster-mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the children, but in no ways to prattle or speak with them; for he would have learnt whether they would speak the Hebrew language (which he took to have been the first), or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perchance the tongue of their parents of whom they had been born. But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments."[5]

Several centuries after Frederick II's experiment, James IV of Scotland was said to have sent two children to be raised by a mute woman isolated on the island of Inchkeith, to determine if language was learned or innate.[6] The children were reported to have spoken good Hebrew, but historians were skeptical of these claims soon after they were made.[7][8] This experiment was later repeated by the Mughal emperor Akbar, who held that speech arose from hearing, thus children raised without hearing human speech would become mute.[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_ ... xperiments

When did human ancestors acquire souls?
When does a developing fetus acquire a soul?
Do people with severe brain damage still have souls ... or does the soul exit the body before the body is technically dead?
Would it be possible for future generations to create a machine with a soul?
Do aliens have souls?

Discuss.

I'm not sure at what point a developing fetus acquires a soul.

I do believe people with severe brain damage, or even who are brain-dead, have souls. At that point, the soul would be trapped in the body unable to do anything.

I don't think humans can give machines a true soul, although machines might be able to mimic a creature that has a soul enough so that it would seem to have one. Souls aren't man-made. I can't say for absolute certain that they can never be, but I doubt it.

Note: I don't have any proof for any of this, but I also don't have proof against it.

Do you have any idea about how it acquires one?

Then, what does it take for the soul finally to leave the body?

Assuming your beliefs are true, how would you tell some apparently normal humans aren’t also “faking” a soul?

Would their lack of a “true” soul warrant treating them like machines?

But we can always at least explore the logical consequences of a belief system, to see if it contradicts itself.

I had a vision once that every time one copulates, all of the nearby spirits gather around, hoping for conception, so that they can compete to win control of this new life and be reborn.

Here's what I believe...

Humans have always had souls. I believe animals have souls as well. Possibly plants as well, and perhaps even microorganisms - I'm not certain about those, though. It wouldn't surprise me if every living thing has a soul. I just think some creatures have more complex souls than others, just like some animals have more complex brains, bodies, etc. than others.

so that they can compete to win control of this new life and be reborn.

Is the soul greater than the hum of its parts?

Could you define what *you* think a soul is?
And could you explain what it is good for?

God doesn't exist. If you believe he/she/it does then prove it.