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An idea explaining the life-force of a being.

Some would just describe it as mind but this would perpetuate a dualistic distinction.

More materialistically inclined atheists would simply describe soul or mind as matter redescribed in another way. Atheists and materialists can both use the word "soul" without contradiction as long as it is used in a very particular way.

Neither an atheist or a materialist would describe soul however as something that lives on separate from the body.

In reference to what ugh said, looking for it with a microscope wouldn't help as what people mean when they talk about soul is the totality of a human being. However, to talk about soul as separate from the body wouldn't make sense either. (The totality of human being that is separate from the human being?)

Or as Nietzsche said, "I consist of body and soul--in the words of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgeable would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something about the body."

Consciousness, maybe. Or do you mean something supernatural that survives physical death? As a rule, atheists don't believe that there is such a thing.

Soul = Your human conscience.

I don't think such a thing as a soul exists.

We have microscopes powerful enough now that we see things 1000000x. Have we ever found a soul? NOOOOOOOOOO!

Atheists lack the belief in a god.

What are you going on about?

somebody didnt know to keep a towel wraped around your head when u were a baby so your head wouldnt look all mutated

what is soul anyway?

you make up something and then ask me to describe it?

how you believers describe "jooeokssks"?!

its the capitol of south korea, seoul.

anyway its your personality