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Do souls have mass?

Do the scientific experiments performed in the late 20th century and the early 21st century quantifiably prove the existance of a human soul, being massed at 3/4ths of an ounce (21.3 grams)? Does it make SENSE for souls to have a mass? Please use the RES form of response.

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I would have to agree. I say this without any research and I am going under the assumption of logic. If a person is weighed before death and then weighed right after. The difference (baring and fluid released in death such as urine or feces) then the difference is logically the soul.

Side: yes

Yes, souls have a mass but my soul is a little more than 22 grams ;)

Side: yes
2 points

Well, none of it is conclusive evidence, but even so, we can't just say "this proves that a soul exists". It just means that there's something going on that we haven't figured out yet. Just how we used to not know why the sun would go down and shit like that. Others explained "Sun God" or "World is flat and moves", but those were just guesses... just like "souls weigh 21 grams" thing.

Also, there's a theory floating around, but I haven't taken time to research it, so I will post it simply as a possibility and not as something I believe to be true:

Your heart has a cavity between the two ventricles. That cavity has the highest electro-magnetic field of the entire body. Some say that it can be measured up to eight feet away from a person. Some believe that this is the "battery of life" - that which causes the heart to pump. There's a theory that this "battery" is powered by a Micro Black Hole at the center of this electro-magnetism - the singularity of which creates the power to run your heart.

When your heart stops this Micro Black Hole has died out. Which means the singularity of the Micro Black Hole can no longer curve space/time, thus your body "seems" to lose weight. Though it has not really lost weight - it's lost the ability to curve space/time and your true weight is revealed.

Side: No
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The soul is just a word for the properties that emerge from arranging atoms in such a way so as to create an intelligent being. It is not some physical thing. So, no, no mass.

Side: No

Nope. First, if you look at the experiments, the amount of weight lost varied in amount and time it took to be lost (and in some cases regained).

Side: No
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No. If we look at the experiments carefully, we can understand that the certain physical conditions were not kept. For instance, the doctors did not mention about the weight of an entire room. For the transparent experiment we should locate a patient into a hermetic cube and measure the weight of this cube. According to the assumption that a soul abandons our world after death, we should detect weight decreasing in this case. Otherwise we may say that the soul is staying at the room and waiting until someone will open a window.

Side: No