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linkhyrule5 comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 108 - Less Wrong
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Yes, but that's a new spell - that's the equivalent of a live-sync system, where you make your "backups" so often that they're all basically the same anyway. That's not the default. By that argument, only Quirrell has a soul.
It could also be said that only Quirrel has a soul that survives his body's death.
... then the theory of a soul is doing no explanatory work and should be discarded.
We have two competing theories. One says everyone has a soul, and the True Horcrux ritual lets it survive death. The other says normal people don't have souls, and the True Horcrux ritual creates one, which can then survive death.
I'm not convinced that the first theory isn't just as parsimonious. It models the soul as something that needs to be anchored to the world. The (original) living body is always an anchor, and the TH ritual creates more anchors.
This also reminds me of the fact Draco believed Muggles have no souls. I now assign a higher credence to that idea.