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Comment author: alasarod 19 April 2010 08:38:09PM 8 points [-]

thinks everyone here are robots or soulless automatons because of the lack of respect for intuition.

A coworker was telling me that the law of conservation of energy means that the energy in our soul cannot disappear, only move.

I explained that the law includes that energy can transform, and that when we die, the "energy in our soul" serves to warm the panels of our coffin.

We haven't talked about it since.

Comment author: RobinZ 19 April 2010 08:48:01PM 1 point [-]

In both cases, there's an inferential distance that hasn't been covered.