Use of soul and does it exist

The Immaterial Soul Well yes I’ll agree with you that the immaterials might be stored in our brains. But this doesn’t mean that they aren’t immaterials because they’re stored somewhere. Numbers are abstracts that physically don’t actually exist. Like the shapes “1, 2, and 3” merely represent numbers, but shapes aren’t the numbers themselves because there is a difference between symbols and quantity. Now inside a computer software, information might be represented in binary (eg 01100001 = “a”), but does information materially exist? No. I guess sure you could argue that information can represent things that is physically real (e.g. articles on say American President Barack Obama) but this would be irrelevant because information can represent things that don’t exist (e.g. superman, Zelda, transformers). You asked how we would know the soul carries on, I myself don’t know for all souls. When a computer breaks down beyond repair, is the software lost? It depends if you backed up the data or not… If you did back up, you just simply get new hardware, if not, well you get the idea. When discussing the soul, it’s easy to point out the immaterials that composes you, and also that immaterials don’t bleed nor die like our mortal bodies (making it immortal), but for the soul to carry on to new hardware after the old one has been destroyed I don’t know it for certain, more towards hope it. Rebirth When you’re a child you mature into an adult. Now is your childhood and adult self you? Yes, they are you, just you at different times. As time moves on you take on different roles, servant and ruler, child and adult, student and educator. You never cease to be you, you merely take on new roles. Rebirth you just take on the role of a new born. So yes, you could still be immortal and go through rebirth. If you’re eager to know if I’m still the same soul, you simply ask… I’ll say “it’s still me”. And if you disbelieve, that is your problem to figure out, for I would know because I’m me, and you are not me, so you wouldn’t know. What use is it? This is kind of like having a computer with its hardware, yet no software, which makes practically useless. If you didn’t have a soul, you would not have a mind, which means you can’t strategize on your video games you play. You won’t have any friends, because for social relationships to function it requires memories which is parts of the soul (just imagine walking up to the same person again and again and never make any progress in knowing him\her because the person is a stranger every time you meet). Having careers in anything would be impossible because you could never learn anything (knowledge or information is immaterial) you ask what use is it, I guess the simplest answer is making you useful to begin with. Your soul is literally you. It making not any sense. I don’t see why it’s impossible to transfer one soul to anther flesh, like that of transferring software to other computers. As to you actually seeing a soul, do you experience any of the immaterials? Do you believe or doubt? Do you disagree or agree? Do you have a position on anything? Do you think? Do you learn? Do you have plans about your future? Do you like or hate something? Do you have any principles? Do you have ethics? If you have any of these you have a soul because these things are immaterial. And the soul is the immaterial part of you.