Cultivating Immortality with Scientific Thinking
Chapter 876

On the Nature of the Soul

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"First, memory is the foundation of the soul. It possesses continuous or intermittent recordings of information from the material world across successive fragments of space-time, determining whether a living being's soul exists!

Second, the soul is related to matter. There must be some connection between soul and matter; the two can influence each other, as in the so-called matter determines spirit, and spirit interferes with matter!

Third, perception determines the continuation of memory—that is, the extension of the soul. Only by perceiving the outside world and continuously taking in external information to form successive memories can the birth and continuation of the soul be ensured."

"And these are the Three Laws of Soul I have summarized!"

Lin Chen's deep, resonant voice echoed throughout the Laboratory.

Daoists believed that the soul was the "Primordial Spirit," the origin through which humans connected with Heaven, Earth, and all things. Through cultivation, one could return to simplicity and unite with the Dao.

Buddhists regarded the soul as "divine consciousness," the main body of reincarnation. They emphasized escaping the cycle of reincarnation through cultivation and attaining nirvana.

Theologians generally believed that the soul was the eternal essence bestowed by God, a bond between humans and the divine, possessing a sacred nature that transcended the physical body.

As for scientists, they remained skeptical of the soul, tending to explain consciousness through neuroscience and psychology, believing that the soul might be a product of brain activity.

Though the various schools held different views, in Lin Chen's previous life, the soul, as humanity's exploration of self-transcendence and eternity, had always been one of the core subjects of philosophy and religion, because no objective phenomenon could directly prove the existence of the soul.

But after reincarnating into this Chaos Universe, within a greater universe where extraordinary power flourished, the

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