The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a kn…

Steven Pinker
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The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. ✨ Steven Pinker (2009). How the Mind Works, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company
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The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. ✨ Steven Pinker (2009). How the Mind Works, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

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