Michael Shermer - Can a Person Be a Soul?

For subscriber-only exclusives, register for a free membership today: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns Is a soul required to make a person? If there is no soul, is there no person? Almost all scientists and most philosophers find no need for a soul. Certainly, souls are not known to science. What arguments support a soul? Revelations of religions? But then souls are a matter of faith. Any philosophical theories? Purchase mugs, hoodies, and more in our Closer To Truth merch store: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Watch more interviews on the concept of souls: https://shorturl.at/rs368 Michael Brant Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.