<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:09 PM William Flynn Wallace <</span><a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">foozler83@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:19.2px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></span><i>C'mon - it is scientifically impossible to measure anything nonphysical, right? So if you can't study it, it ain't science! </i></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Your right of course, but (and I've said all this before) </font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font size="4">I think</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font size="4"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font size="4">information is as close as you can get to the traditional concept of the soul and still remain within the scientific method. Consider the similarities:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font size="4"> </font></div><font size="4" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The soul is non material and so is</font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font size="4"> </font></div><font size="4" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">information. It's difficult to pin down a unique physical location for the soul, and the same is true for information. The soul is the essential, must have, part of consciousness, exactly the same situation is true for information. The soul is immortal and potentially so is information. </font></div><div> <br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">But there are important differences too. A soul is unique but information can be duplicated. The soul is and will always remain unfathomable, but information is understandable, in fact information is the ONLY thing that is understandable. Information unambiguously exists, I don't think anyone would deny that, but even if the soul exists it will never be proven scientifically.</font></div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>
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