IGS, about soul

Post to IGS:

My clan believes spirit or soul is our personal part of the spirit of our kin, stored in the unity of flesh and mind.

This unity is forever lost when one is emergency cloned or clone jumps. After that what remains is a copy with the belief it is the original.

The spiritual part of kinship cannot survive serialization to data. The physical part of the kinship is lost when one moves to borrowed flesh. And even if both persisted, separating one from another breaks the whole.

Does soullessness make somebody a monster? Not necessarily. Ethics and morals are also a concious choice. Being able to do evil does not make such deeds a necessity, just like being able to do good does not force one to goodness.

I have not been in the habit of posting to IGS before. I wonder if participating in such conversation was particularly smart.