"....Does 'dual souls' refer to having two souls?"

After saying this, Liu Xiangqian paused and added:

"Of course, I don't mean to say that Comrade Cao Yi has two personalities, but perhaps he has some peculiarities in terms of spirit attributes."

Lin Li lifted his eyelids to give him a glance and asked with a hint of curiosity:

"Elder Liu, do you believe in the existence of souls in the world?"

Liu Xiangqian was initially taken aback, then spoke hesitantly:

"...Originally, I held a negative stance, given that you know the experiences of my partner in my earlier years.

But after getting in touch with the Damo Realm, I feel that in some areas we have not covered, there may indeed be some unknown situations, for instance... souls."

As one of the earliest top researchers in Huaxia, Liu Xiangqian experienced many unique historical nodes.

Leaving aside those unspeakable years, he was a direct participant in the extraordinary function of the Qi Gong wave later on.

Perhaps some classmates still remember that his wife's Evil Energy project was canceled due to the exposure of the Qi Gong scam.

Thus, Liu Xiangqian had always been dismissive about the existence of souls, considering it somewhat pretentious.

But after coming to the Damo Realm, his views began to change subtly.

As a renowned medical scientist, Liu Xiangqian was responsible for the theoretical research on pills and some cultivation concepts in the camp.

He led a team to breach the barrier of mass production of the Spirit Awakening Pill and was the major contributor to the Harbin Pharmaceutical Group's Awakening Pill, also taking on the task of researching the pineal gland.

Therefore, Liu Xiangqian had to engage with much information about cultivation in the Damo Realm, especially in the vast field of life.

For example, there are many highly cultivated cultivators in the Damo Realm who have lived for hundreds of years; before the Great Collision occurred, there were even cases of people surviving for a millennium.

Therefore, many of Liu Xiangqian's concepts inevitably changed, including his exploration of the soul.

Soul.

This has always been a highly controversial field, involving materialism or idealism.

Materialists firmly believe that souls do not exist, while idealists think otherwise, believing that humans must have souls.

The native concept of the soul is more of a philosophical issue than a scientific one.

Many might have heard of this experiment:

Scientists measured some dying people and eventually found that they were 21 grams lighter in the last second before death, whereas the gas they exhaled was far less than this value.

Then they labeled 21 grams as the weight of the soul.

But in reality, it's a blown-up half-truth.

Yes, a half-truth—not quite a rumor, but not that mystical either.

The first to discover this was Duncan McDougall, a doctor from Eagles, who published an article in 1907 titled "The Hypothesis of Soul as a Substance and the Existence of Material Evidence for Soul" that described how he measured the weight of one's soul and concluded that the soul of a sample patient weighed 21 grams.

This is the origin of the soul's 21 grams, and it gradually spread.

Interestingly enough,

This number isn't much used by religions; many personal records even refute this concept, yet many artistically inclined individuals fondly cite it.

This might be something McDougall never imagined until his death.

A later theory suggested that the missing 21 grams were just cellular ATP, or the so-called energy, of the human body.

And this, too, is a false lie; no one actually conducted experiments to prove this refutation theory.

This 21 grams is indeed a data point, but it is the only experimental exemplar we have.

Many countries or teams have conducted similar experiments after that article came out.

But the figures they got fluctuated greatly, generally between 0.2 and 0.8 grams.

Such a weight is negligible for the human body, making it hard to prove it as the weight of a soul.

Thus, the claim about the soul's weight has always been a half-truth, half-real, half-false, not wholly believable.

Another soul-related experiment comes from Sam Panier, and this experiment was also exaggerated widely.

The design of this experiment is actually quite simple:

If a "soul" can float when a patient dies, seeing their own body and the doctors trying to save it, and the lights on the ceiling.

If we place a board below the ceiling with some small objects on top that only Sam knows, no one else does.

Then the "soul" should be able to see these small objects.

If this patient can be resuscitated and can describe the objects on the board, it would differentiate whether the "soul" is a mere imagination or an objectively existing entity.

Many marketing accounts tell a story like this:

Sam researched over 100 patients and found that 7 of them, upon being resuscitated, could describe the scenes they saw when their "souls" left their bodies, especially the small objects on the board, and got them all right.

This is actually a fabrication, nonsense.

The experiment itself isn't about proving the existence of souls; in the first phase, only one person described the visual and auditory sensations within three minutes of cardiac arrest.

The second phase of the experiment is still ongoing.

The latest news on a certain platform is from 2019, but due to well-known special circumstances, it hasn't progressed, nor has any result been announced. (The author has personally verified the above content)

In the history of science, a truly authoritative figure on the debate about souls should be John Aikley.

This Nobel laureate directly mentioned souls in his paper, proposing that "there is an invisible communication substance between nerve cells, which constitutes the soul."

Nobel Prize papers are relatively open, not concerning credibility but the author's stance on an issue.

For Aikley to make such a statement in his paper is almost like coming out publicly.

Many might think scientists are materialists, but besides many believers, there are numerous scientists who hold reservations about souls.

There are also quite a number of research projects on souls each year, with a large number of researchers both domestically and internationally proceeding in waves.

Of course, there are also many who slack off.

In short, Liu Xiangqian's reply did not surprise Lin Li much.

In fact, not just Liu Xiangqian, but Lin Li himself also felt that the concept of dual souls might be related to souls.

It's just a pity that there are currently too few samples, and many studies cannot proceed normally.

Subsequently, the crowd exchanged a bit more briefly and then left.

.....

Note:

This chapter does not express a viewpoint; after contact with the Damo Realm, the issue of souls inevitably comes up.

But going too deep is not possible, as it leads to conflict, so it's briefly touched upon in a chapter and debunks some rumors.

To avoid complaints about padding the word count, it's only a 2000-word mention.

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