My missive to a Friend trying to convince me 'eternal souls' are a real thing ...

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. We as humans (generally speaking) have an inherent proclivity to SURVIVE

If any of our many, many genetic ancestors lacked the desire to survive, we'd have never evolved as a species. They'd have died off and we wouldn't 'be'. That's a logical presumption, right?

So a couple billions of years later, shaped by evolutionary forces, we possess a brain so imaginative, so creative ... that we can, as a species ... contemplate that hey, maybe our bodies could die (which is demonstrably inevitable), but there's some magical force in the universe that could keep us alive forever and ever!

To me it's perhaps inevitable that the intellect to conceive of that idea would eventually develop, given enough time, fostered by a relatively stable planet/environment.

I fully admit it's EXTREMELY tantalizing to our species. But that doesn't make it 'real'.