If you do, then what exactly defines a soul in your view?

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    1 year ago

    I think ‘soul’ is not something which exists in itself - it is the idea of the essence of a thing, the thing which causes an individual life.

    So theories go around that there are spiritual beings separate from the physical (debatable) and I personally think that it extends to all life, such that trees can have awareness which can also extend beyond their physical bodies.

    As such, they obviously exist - but their exact definition and nature is quite hard to grasp. I don’t think they can survive physical death.