Do elephants have souls
How could they not?
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Only humans have souls!
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I'm like 99.9999999999% sure that a soul is nothing more than the conscious brain. The more self-aware something is, the more of a soul I guess it could be said to have - "I think therefore I am" kind of though that wasn't the intent of the quote I think. Anyway, a soul as in all elephants go to heaven? No. When the brain stops working there is nothing else, no soul, no after life, no light or dark, no feeling, etc. I would say though, a soul as in a consciousness, elephants, dogs, dolphins, and other primates besides humans are pretty bright, and likely self-aware to some extent at least (though they probably don't have a concept of death - btw this is all just me thinking I could be totally wrong) In that some animals seem to be pretty smart, I'm kind of against killing those animals unless someone is starving or something. I judge the justification of killing based on self-awareness and need. Kill all the chickens and cows you want, they don't know what's going on anyway and there are plenty of them. Side: How could they not?
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