Sorry, Allan, you seemed to have missed the point of the article. It didn’t in any way use the “you can’t disprove” logic. In fact I questioned the existence of the soul a few times. However, you glossed over the fact that Sheldrake has conducted numerous well-documented experiments that empirically show a gap in our understanding of a strange phenomenon he is observing. Someone with your thinking would never be able to perform an experiment based on a hypothesis if the explanations always had to be known about ahead of time. I merely contended that the “concept” of a soul is not, in principle, anathema to physics or science. Why don’t you take up your argument with Scientific American that published an article regarding a conscious universe (there are many such papers). If it is conscious, I imagine there is a physical reason for it after all. On top of that, tell us all with certainty how old the Cosmos is. You can’t. Then tell us what the highest order of being that could evolve over eternity using normal evolutionary processes might be like. If you say humans, because that’s all we empirically know about, then it shows hubris and little imagination and ability for scientific conjecture based on current observations.