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No need to hesitate. We're all grown-ups here (to my knowledge). We've had theists on AF before, so it's not surprising some are here also.
We always tended to be a full-contact board. Bring your data, bring your arguments -nothing is allowed to "slide".
There presently is no evidence for a "soul", and the arguments for it break down when you consider situations like identical twins (one soul becomes two?), people with TBI (either accidentally, or via surgery, or disease), etc. As Gh said, if you can demonstrate it I will believe it. Until then, I'm not buying it. Which is true for most things with me.
Again, not a neuroscientist. But from what I read, most seem to agree that the more interconnectedness of a system (be it brain cells or computers), the more it exhibits emergent characteristics and complexities beyond its base construction. There are few things as interconnected as human brains (I think the only possible competitors are other brains...I think cephalopods are comparable to ours, for example).
