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Originally posted by CS733t
Now with that said...there is no life without a soul, so what would appear on mars would be a lifeless body.
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Wouldn't that mean that bacteria, plants, funghi etc. were all dead?
Surely the soul is just a hypothetical, metaphysical entity, which is mistakenly extrapolated from the behaviour of sentient, physical beings.
That is to say that, when something dies, the behaviour we mistakenly ascribe to its soul (fallacy no. 1) stops, so we assume this means the soul has left it (fallacy no. 2).
You've then made the assumption that the soul is something non-physical (fallacy no. 3?) and would therefore not be replicated when the physical being was reconstructed, which would somehow leave the body dead.
IMHO that's a bit tenous.