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The burden of proof lies on those who say it exists, not the other way around.

• ChrisGreenHeur 8mo ago
  The burden of proof lies on whoever wants to convince someone else of something. in this case the guy that wants to convince people it likely is not real.
  • mrandish 8mo ago
    The original poster stated > "The human brain is mutable, the human "soul" is a concept thats not proven yet and likely isn't real." The soul is "a concept that's not proven yet." It's unproven because there's no convincing evidence for the proposition. By definition, in the absence of convincing evidence, the null hypothesis of any proposition is presumed to be more likely. The presumed likelihood of the null hypothesis is not a positive assertion which creates a burden of proof. It's the presumed default state of all possible propositions - even those yet to be imagined. In other words, pointing out 'absence of evidence' is not asserting 'evidence of absence'. See: Russell's Teapot and Sagan's Dragon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot)
    • ChrisGreenHeur 8mo ago
      It is not the case that x is proven due to having y evidence pointing in its direction. That's not how any of this works.
• pjaoko 8mo ago
  Do you exist?