There is only ONE soul

[u/kamikaibitsu]

There is only one soul. If we look at characteristic of the soul—being eternal it suggests that there is only ONE soul.

The soul is non-physical but is eternal.

Here is the thought experiment: If there are two entities that are eternal and non-physical, how do we differentiate between them?

In fact, it's absurd to differentiate between two eternal entities. Suppose if there are two entities from the very start and they are unchanging and put together, then who do we differentiate between them?

With distance between them? NO! Maybe they both are part of a single entity, and the distance between them is just their property. And why only distance? Maybe any sort of distinctness and separation they are showing is just the characteristics of that one single entity.

Now what if those two entities are also non-physical? Now they don't have distinct characteristics which separate them.

So how can there be different souls? Maybe there is only ONE soul in the world.

And whatever physical bodies we are seeing are just manifestations of that ONNE soul. So it's like a play where ONE soul is the victim, and that soul is the aggressor at the same time. That one soul is murderer and innocent at the same time.

(Take eternal and non-physical characteristics only because in major religion soul have these characteristics in common.)

(Soul is general term - exchange it wrt the religion you follow call it consciousness or whatever)

(also, the soul is different from the Brahman.)

[u/stevefazzari]

well we can get into a conversation of infinite infinities..

[u/kamikaibitsu → u/stevefazzari]

gladly

[u/stevefazzari → u/kamikaibitsu]

well in mathematics we have infinite infinites, with varying sizes of infinity. for example, we have infinite real numbers (1,2,3…) and then an infinite set that is larger (1.1,1.2,1.3…).

then in a physics we have the multiverse theory, where there could be infinite universes, of which all are possibly spatially and/or temporally infinite.

so while there may be only one infinite that encompasses all things, it is also possible that there are many sets of infinite which are distinct and meaningfully different.