Tbf I don’t see anything weird in being an atheist and believing in souls in the philosophical sense, as a part of consciousness in humans, animals and perhaps advanced AI in the future (but it’s a whole different topic) that lets us experience reality rather than being glorified chunks of matter which just exist.
Maybe there’s a better term than soul for this, but it has nothing to do with the concept of afterlife.
I feel like what you’re referring to is higher order thought. Do you think that beings might exist in this universe that are beyond our thought process? Would they view us as lacking a “soul” like we would view insects as lacking a soul?
Tbf I don’t see anything weird in being an atheist and believing in souls in the philosophical sense, as a part of consciousness in humans, animals and perhaps advanced AI in the future (but it’s a whole different topic) that lets us experience reality rather than being glorified chunks of matter which just exist.
Maybe there’s a better term than soul for this, but it has nothing to do with the concept of afterlife.
I feel like what you’re referring to is higher order thought. Do you think that beings might exist in this universe that are beyond our thought process? Would they view us as lacking a “soul” like we would view insects as lacking a soul?