[On the question "Do souls or spirits exist?"]

I believe that souls exist. Sensory information may consist of nothing but chemical processes, but if there were no souls around to experience them, there would be no way to describe how they feel. In other words, without a soul, there would be no particular reason that the color red would be seen as red and not blue. Or for pain to be unpleasant instead of pleasant. Or even, for that matter, to be able to feel or think anything at all. I would say that soul is the only thing that distinguishes us from inanimate objects, but personally, I feel that even inanimate objects have soul and that in some way it might be possible after death to experience what it is like to be reincarnated as, for example, a rock, although it may not be all that terribly interesting to do so.