Reminds me of this 1996 essay, "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died": http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/courses/psy115w/Fall02/TomWolfe-SorryButYourSoul.htm http://www.p

Reminds me of this 1996 essay, "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died": http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/courses/psy115w/Fall02/TomWolfe-SorryButYourSoul.htm http://www.psy.vanderbilt.edu/courses/psy115w/Fall02/TomWolf... TL;DR: It argues that what comes after "God is dead" (Nietzsche) is "the soul is dead" (or less poetically, "the self is dead"), i.e. we become convinced we have no agency, but mere biological and environmental automatons with the concomitant lack of moral accountability. (Credit to earljwagner's 2023 post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37950313 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37950313)