Sidhae wrote:The concept of an immortal soul doesn't contradict the accepted theories of physics. Energy never disappears, it merely transforms. Energy can also be used to store information and transform it into a tangible form - a feature we both are currently using with our computers. In fact, both energy and matter IS information.
It's not that difficult to understand how a soul might exist if you look at everything as a compilation of information. Atoms are made up of sub-atomic particles which define it's properties, much like bits define the properties of a byte. Atoms make up molecules, defining their properties much like bytes define the properties of a kilobyte. Molecules make up larger complex structures, defining their properties, and so on all the way up to Universe scale. Everything, from a string to atom to molecule to human being, is a carrier of information.
That information, the total sum of information that makes up you, is your soul. That information is infinite, because it didn't assemble into you from nowhere, and it won't disappear into oblivion when your current form eventually disassembles. It will carry on and eventually reassemble in a new form that may have no semblance of your previous form, but will still effectively be you.
When water turns into ice, or steam, is it still water? Nope. The atoms are the same, but they're not configured in a liquid form, they're in a solid or gaseous form respectively. So while it may be the same molecules, it's still not the same.
