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I am open to the possibilities of our sentient, conscious mind/energy/soul lasting on after death. Who knows? it could be. but, BEFORE life, there is nothing, then you have an egg and a spermatozooa, both comprising half of the DNA needed to form a creature (in our case, human).
Once you combine the two you have one cell. It is nearly invisible it is so tiny. that cell splits and splits until you have a group of undifferentiated cells (around 100-200) or so, and then the DNA tells the cells to differentiate.
once a spinal crease is made and the cells start to form skin, bones, etc., the brain is developed. it takes 9 months of continual growth and development, of intra-womb experiences and sounds and such, and then a baby is born.
this baby is not self-conscious. it is not aware of it's own existance.
by all studies, research, philosophical inquiry, the human mind does not self-actualize until the age of 2-4 years old. was there a nascent "soul/mind" just waiting for the right stimulus? not as seen by the evidence. what does happen is that the mind/brain continues to receive flood of input (which we learn to tune out for redundancy and to keep us from going insane), and at some point it crosses a threshhold, where the mind understands that the mind is understanding.
dig?
from then on it is a development of the self. everything in a human is predicated by self-interest at that early stage (and for many, sadly, they never leave this infantilism of self-interest.)
Many philosophers believe that no human is born with a soul, but that it must be earned, through sufferinga nd experience.
this implies that the soul is something CREATED by the individual, not something that exists already and is shoved into a zygote at the moment of conception.
I personally do not see anything that human's do, that calls for a soul to achieve it. whether it is art, music, genocide, religion, etc., a soul is not needed to create these things in our societies. altruism, creativity, kindness, love, homosexuality, hate, fear, all these emotions are part and parcel of nearly every living creature we choose to study.
if a "soul" is achieved by an individual, then it is a result of their flesh and blood and electrical implses of their natural body, and as such, wiill cease to function as a "soul" the moment the body ceases to function as an living electrical organism (death)
you mention nature and the conservation of energy ad how energy cannot be created or destroyed, only moved or alter4ed to another form. in nature energy DISSIPATES instantly, finding the easiest routes by which to do so.
why would our "souls" if they are independent energy, not do the same upon death? by virtue of this then the idea that a "soul" can exit the body upon death and continue whole to function as the sentient life force of an organism, or enter into another zygote somewhere in the world, is patently ridiculous.
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