An analogy to understand this in my current model has the soul as a photon surrounded by matter moving in a reincarnating orbit. If the dark matter is dissipated the photon doesn't orbit nor reincarnate and instead instantly goes to the Omega experiencing a forever unalterable now.
If the soul is supposed to be related to an actual person, and not considered to be just the stuff people's inner life is made of, then the soul would have to be information, which can be created and destroyed. It would have to be encoded in 'something' which is usually where people pull some all-encompassing field out of their ass in order to encode the 'soul', which I think is what @Renfro has done, above.
Sure. If the soul is made of energy instead of other things like atoms or information or some other third thing then a law of the universe states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. This would explain why reincarnation exist and why people reform to something new. This does also assume that their is such a thing as a soul and I'm not sure fully if this soul is energy or not but this would be my conclusion.
Well I mean if want to get technical and less spirtual the brain does produce electricity so could be used to charge phone. In fact that was the entire plot l'm pretty sure of little known movie not sure if you've heard of it (lol) called The Matrix.
That's the point I was trying to make in that other post: the First Law of Thermodynamics says energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. A conventional lightbulb, for example, converts only 10 % of the electricity it consumes into light, the rest is dissipated to the environment as waste heat. This means that not all energy is realistically recoverable or can be converted back into its original form. If we take the electrical energy analogy for subtle energy too literally, similar limitations analogous to the First Law of Thermodynamics would apply, which would clearly be unsatisfactory. For example, it would prohibit the phenomenon that subtle energy can be created from thin air, or that it can simply vanish without a trace. Which is why I think that magic shouldn't lean on physics too hard for analogies and consider alternative ones like the information model as well.
Yeah I did add on to the explanation that this does have to one first assume the soul tangibly exists if exists at all and two assume the soul is made completely out of energy. A third assumption also being that spirtual matters are like and can be akin to physics. So this statement makes a lot of assumptions. The main downside of this and with a lot of physics is that it requires someone to make a lot of assumptions.
