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That's kind of funny, actually. About 5 years ago, I thought of the exact same argument as CoachAlan (if you had enough data and positioning of all the chemicals and everything in the brain, you could predict and individual's response) but came to the opposite conclusion, in that I do in fact, have free will, and by inference, a soul.
I guess until such time as we have sensing devices and knowledge of physics enough to scan a person's entire atomic makeup we won't ever know whether there is some slight deviation in the brain's predicted chemistry, which would be indicative of a soul.
Somewhat off topic, there was a study a while back where a group was attempting to prove/disprove telekinesis on a small scale. The group had a number of people attempt to make a computer give out more 1s than 0s in a random string, basically willing electrons to the '1' position. The experiment revealed that only like 50.02% of the numbers were 1s, but given the sheer quantity of numbers, that was something like a million standard deviations off of the control. This might suggest that some metaphysical element is cabable of directly affecting physical objects, which would imply the existence of a soul.
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