Use of soul and does it exist

“First lets decide what do you want the soul to be. Do you want it to be the processor, the hardware or the software? I am really confused. This debate can be immaterial as you cannot take this site out of this computer screen, but will it mean it has a soul?” I’m saying the software is immaterial, so I’ll say software, because it is analogous to the soul. The hardware makes it possible to process the software, so the processor I guess wouldn’t be the software but the hardware. Does that make any sense? I’m not saying this debate is a soul, it has two souls debating right now, you and me. In round one I talked about the meaning of the soul, in which these words are found “immaterial part of a human being or animal” So no, this debate wouldn’t have a soul because it’s not a human or animal. “As for knowledge and information, it can be made material by writing, making videos and representing it in other ways.” When you carve on a rock something you know, for example “I’m too sexy for my shirt” or “2+2=4” is knowledge there? Well no, not literally. Knowledge and information has no actual substance itself. You break open the rock that you carved and scan every inch of it yet you’ll find no new substance (only the substances that compose the rock) This is why knowledge\information doesn’t physically exist, they’re immaterials. You brought up writing, but just because you write something in pen down doesn’t make knowledge and information actually material… You can pull out a microscope, and look everywhere finding no new substance that is different than the ink and paper (except maybe dirt). So no, when you represent things you don’t make the immaterials literally material, you just merely represent them as a way to understand or know them. “If the soul is the immaterial part of me, then is my body just storage? Isn't the brain responsible for our workings of the mind, for you don't really carry on anything if rebirth is possible, how do you know there is an additional soul for us and we are not surviving by our brain only?” Well I don’t think that it’s just merely a storage. I view your body as a slave to your soul. Software gives instructions to the hardware for it to carry out without pay or compensation, just like the soul gives a will or instructions to carryout in the body. So the body isn’t just storage, it’s the soul’s servant. As a response to rebirth, I’m starting to think I’m not understanding you at all here. At first I thought you were talking about losing all memory of who you are. The second time around I thought you were talking more in the “maturing in or re-mature in” something like what Jesus was talking about to Nicodemus in the 3rd chapter of John found in the New Testament… Which is why I was talking about the difference in child and adult and explain you were still the same person. You seem to think rebirth in some sort of absolute reset or something, but I don’t know if your soul ever goes through a rebirth where everything new and old was reset to some sort of factory default (you permanently lose your experience knowledge, character developed, et cetera). I’m sorry, but I can’t answer your question unless rebirth is defined. “Software is immaterial, but that doesn't give the computer a soul. Why then '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.' these would give us a soul?” Yes, if you are a human or animal and have the immaterials, you have a soul. In round 1 I defined the soul as “the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.” The computer doesn’t have a soul because it isn’t classed as a human being or a member of the animal kingdom. If you build an android, programming it to think and experience the entire range of human emotions, even have its own opinions on matters… But would it ever be a soul? No. Not because it can’t have the same immaterials as people have, but because it’s not a member of the Homo sapiens or the animal kingdom. If soul was broader in its definition (anything, instead of just humans and animals), then yes, an android or a computer would have a soul. “Plus most of these would require intelligence, and intelligence is developed in the brain, so how can these be attributed to the soul? The brain also has memory so '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'” As I mentioned earlier in this post the analogy of the rock… You pop it open there is no intelligence substance. If memory is stored in the brain somewhere say in chemical, does that mean intelligence is material? No. The chemicals would be just merely representing the intelligence so that it can be processed or something. “even without soul I would be able to do these. Also the mind dies along with the body, and also is not yet proven to be separate from the brain, so the mind can't be given to the soul. You wrote that the soul is me. But wouldn't I be different in the next life? How do you know that soul is from this life or a new one? Do you know who were you in the past life? Do you remember your journey from life to death to life? If you don't, how do you still know this empty soul is even present? I ask again, What use is the soul and does it even exist?” No you wouldn’t be able to do those things, because there would be no “I” without the soul, because the soul is you. As to separation, one can simply put software on a disk or USB, separating it from its initial body and transfer it to another body (I don’t see why the soul can’t do the same). If the brain represents the immaterials (e.g. knowledge, memory, beliefs, will, et cetera) Then I don’t see why one can’t represent it on pen paper… if this is so, in theory anyone’s soul can exist inside of a book. Also, I don’t follow you what you’re saying that the mind can’t be given to the soul…. I understand the mind to be immaterial, and the brain to be material, the mind itself is unseeable. Can you even show me a picture of the mind? Why do you think your soul will be different in the next life? I have no reason to think that. Also a lot of questions you asked about the afterlife, memories stuff I can’t really answer because I’ve never been dead before, so I can’t answer them. But what does it matter for this debate if they don’t get answered? Just because I don’t know if you forget things or not doesn’t mean that the soul can’t exist or it has no use whatsoever. The resolution states “Use of soul and does it exist” obviously it has uses, you wouldn’t exist without the soul cause there would be no you without it… Every decision you made in your life is from you soul… Obviously it does exist because we all experience the immaterials.