Finite number of souls - organic and artificial

back in July of 2010, I wrote a blogpost called A finite number of souls and rather than editing that thing, I thought it would be best to do a new blogpost on EXACTLY THE SAME SUBJECT and see what you'all think of it.

The basic premise before was 'there was a finite number of souls shared between all living things' and the more HUMAN souls there are (because of the idiotic 'go forth and multiply crowd') the less ANIMAL souls there are to go around, which means basically a starved over-populace.

Now this was BAD ENOUGH, but further thought on the subject might suggest an even worse scenario --- and it all revolved around the concept 'How many identities do "I" have'?

By this I mean, "When a soldier torches a village of children, as part of his orders, does he lose his soul?" well, obviously not, so that leaves two options. There is no punishment for EVIL for an entity with a single soul; no morals, no guilt, no SIN. Or... There are more than one soul IN EACH OF US; a soul for each conflicting occasion of our complex lives.

But this throws up an interesting problem ... how many souls do each of us have? Three? Fourteen? Fifty? And if we have souls, do animals also have souls? And how many? And how do we categorise our multi-soulness? Is it based on SOCIABILITY, say. Isn't it obvious that, as a communal race, we feed off each other, so maybe we SHARE A FINITE NUMBER OF SOULS between us all to cover for these 'seemingly immoral moments' we're forced to partake in, or allowed to partake in because of our 'role in life' at that time. And so do the 'other wild animals' we share this planet with.

So we're better off because, as we all share a finite number of 'character souls', so there's soully salvation around the corner for what could have been a decaying planetary fauna. But we're not better off, we're not better off at all. Humans having souls (and perhaps sharing them with animals) is not the real problem.

THE SOUL ITSELF is the real problem.

How so? Well, we have to look what a soul is. As stone is dead. A table is dead. Water is dead. It has no soul. But what is the exact definition? Well, it's about the TRANSFER OF ENERGY. The soul, in our newly defined form, becomes a SYSTEM THAT HAS THE ABILITY TO CONVERT ZERO POINT ENERGY FROM ONE FORM TO ANOTHER. A living system, if you will.

Like a plant photosynthesising the sun's energy.
Like a wolf digesting an elk.
Like an earth processing the radiational energy of the sun through the mantle and atmosphere.

This gives us a whole new perspective on what THE SOUL might be. No longer is THE SOUL the 'sole preserve' (no pun intended) of Humans, but we can now extend that out to OTHER LIVING SYSTEMS, other pain-feeling systems, other energy converting systems. Even the earth has a soul, as a part of the Solar Soul Entity.

And now here's the real EARTH KILLER ... this is why we're truly fucked as a planet. Human Technology; you know what I'm talking about, the PERIODIC SOULS of the water kettle, the petrol car, the digital computer, the nuclear energy plant. All these ARTIFICIAL ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS, when they're working, act in the same way as organic souls.

And if there ARE A FINITE NUMBER OF SOULS, the proliferation of these artificial energy conversion machines are eating up the number of souls accessible to the organic world. What's basically happening is akin to the BORG INFILTRATION of the organic universe. For a star the size of our sun, for a planet the size of our earth, only a certain number of energy conversion systems can be accomodated at any one time. It's like an accounting table. Energy can not be created or destroyed, and as SOULS are a mechanism of energy conversion, the more likely we are to ERADICATE not only all other life forms from our once-glorious world but also OURSELVES.

Think about Google - this is now AN EXTENSION OF THE HUMAN SOUL, at least it's an extension of human memory. What's the first thing you do when you can't remember the name of 'that film about a washed-up boxer who makes a comeback and wins the trophy for Adrienne'? You GOOGLE it. Or some other search engine. You extend your organic soul into the artificial (or illusory) soul that we call the internet. That touch of the organic and the artificial COULD SPELL THE END FOR ALL OF MANKIND.

In summary, My concept of SOUL is directly related to the finite values of the EARTH and the SUN... but then there's also radiational influence and potential fed in from our GALACTIC CENTRE.

So, this may be all 'academic' ... UNLESS humanity starts to DRAIN the 'soul potential' of the neighbouring galaxy, angering our 'soulful' neighbours. And that wouldn't be a clever thing to do, would it?