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Could we ever get evidence of a "read-only" soul? I'm imagining something that translates biochemical reactions associated with emotions into "actual" emotions. Don't get me wrong, I still consider myself an atheist, but it seems to me that how strongly one believes in a soul that is only affected by physical reality is based purely on their prior probability.
Sounds like epiphenomenalism.
Isn't that how it works right now? I mean, we actually "feel sad" and we actually "have thoughts".
In a sense, that's what ordinary materialists believe in: Oh look, here's this system which happens to be an instance of conscious thought! That's part of a soul!
It's just pattern-recognition, but that's all a read-only soul is.