So, it seems to me that the soul animates the body.
But once the body dies, the task of animating it is over.
The amount of energy it took to maintain a body,
is now free to do other things. It can take on new
weights. Other things it can take on have no weight.
This came to me a little while ago.
It was part of the answer i got from asking what we will loose when we die.
21 grams. There was a famous study done in the early 20th century that concluded that all souls are 21 grams. I personally don’t believe in souls, I believe what we know as souls is just the directed energy of the body. And as we already know, E = mc2, so energy is in fact, mass in motion. I consider myself a monist. When the body dies so does the 21 grams of energy, until we can find some way of storing that energy for later purposes if accidents occur, well after we already become biologically immortal. Yes, I believe physical immortality is possible, but such a feat won’t happen for a very long time.