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Pain is a biologically-governed function that depends on a functional central nervous system. Even if the mind (or "soul") could somehow survive bodily death, the central nervous system functions no longer. Until there is a coherent story about the interactions between body and mind, there is no compelling reason to assume that a mind separate from its body can experience physical pain when sensory nerves are absent. Pain is a reasonably well-understood phenomenon. There is very little room for a mind or soul to exert any causal or explanatory power upon our understanding of pain, because all the biological interactions regarding the sensation give us a by-and-large complete working understanding of it. If pain can be explained completely through physiological means, where does the soul fit in? What place could it have in our theory? As is the case with nearly all of our discoveries about the body, the more we learn, the less and less explanatory power the soul idea holds. Further still, inasmuch as our physical bodies cannot causally interact with any alleged non-physical substrata such as minds, souls, or ghosts, what reason have we to believe that even an intensely hot blaze could do so much as warm a soul? Think about it for a few minutes and you too will see why I for one am not compelled to believe in a mind separate from a body which can experience physical pain.
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