DAWKINS

• Soul one (the dualist, religious soul) Dawkins rejects as a metaphor and absurd nonsense. It is seen as wishful-thinking for those fearful of death.
• Soul two (our mental capacities) is accepted by some materialists, such as Dawkins. Soul two is influenced by Aristotelian understanding.
• modern materialist, asserts there is no part of a human that is non-physical. No form of consciousness is believed to live on after death.
• Humans beings are only a mixture of chemicals, and everything can be reduced to the physical.