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Questions tagged [souls]

The animating and vital principle in beings credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. Souls can also refer to the spiritual nature of a being.

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Short story: alien transporter technology extinguishes the soul

This is from a dystopian anthology I read in the early 1970's. Humans encounter a friendly alien race that shares advanced technologies. The protagonist's daughter (maybe) begs him to not use the ...
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I’m looking for a Sci-fi book where a man’s brain is hijacked by someone trying to prove what human consciousness and the soul is

I read it probably 15 or more years ago now, so it’s not new. It is a book where a man’s brain is hijacked by someone trying to prove what human consciousness and the human soul is. He is kidnapped, ...
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Did the souls in the keywork interact with each other before Sirius arrived?

In the Amory Wars, the souls of the deceased are sent to power the Keywork. When a living man, Sirius, enters the Keywork, the souls attempt to possess him. While Sirius is still in the keywork, two ...
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