That’s what I thought you meant. Perhaps you misunderstood mine: that the concepts wizards associate with the sequence of symbols “soul” does not even slightly resemble anything in reality.
Well, it’s possible but it doesn’t seem very likely. The only requirement of reality for that concept to make sense is that magic requires somehting that is in some way scarce, for example such that wizards have it but muggles or spell effects don’t. If this comes in discrete chunks or not, if if’s made of information or some more tangible magic substance, if it can be duplicated with sufficient effort, etc. do not place strict requirements.
That’s what I thought you meant. Perhaps you misunderstood mine: that the concepts wizards associate with the sequence of symbols “soul” does not even slightly resemble anything in reality.
Well, it’s possible but it doesn’t seem very likely. The only requirement of reality for that concept to make sense is that magic requires somehting that is in some way scarce, for example such that wizards have it but muggles or spell effects don’t. If this comes in discrete chunks or not, if if’s made of information or some more tangible magic substance, if it can be duplicated with sufficient effort, etc. do not place strict requirements.