If the soul cannot causally interact with the body in life, there is no principled reason to think a disembodied soul could sustain the psychological continuity required for personal identity after death.
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A relation holding between a person at one time and a being at a later time when the later being inherits the memories, intentions, beliefs, and psychological states of the earlier person.
soul(Aristotelian natural philosophy as transmitted by 'Abd al-Latif)
A principle introduced to explain animal life beyond what organs alone can account for, but insufficient on its own to explain the full range of human activity