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    It is not the case that Therefore, the soul's self-moving capacity terminates at bodily death, not persisting eternally.

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    • 1.Self-movement (as in Platonic/Aristotelian thought) is a defining property of soul; eliminating it contradicts the concept itself.
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    • 2.Consciousness and intentionality may be substrate-independent; immaterial properties need not depend on physical decay.
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    • 3.The absence of empirical evidence for afterlife doesn't prove it's impossible—many unobservable realities escape direct verification.
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    • 1.Empirically, all observed self-movement in living things correlates with physical substrates; no self-motion occurs without matter.
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    • 2.The soul's capacities (sensation, appetite, locomotion) all depend on bodily organs; loss of organs entails loss of these capacities.
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    • 3.The principle of parsimony favors rejecting unobservable entities; positing eternal souls multiplies entities beyond necessity.
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