Can you show that he doesn't?
Oh, forthaluvva ... not another one!
I would say that the words soul, spirit, personality, etc are all helpful labels to define more clearly in conversation which aspects of a person one is talking about. They are all integral and inseparable parts of the person.
I certainly don't. When I die, all the above-mentioned parts of me will end, since there will be no brain/mind to sustain them. I hope a few people will remember me for a while, but as I have never become famous for anything, I shall fade quite quickly.
I have not seen evidence for an afterlife so my provisional conclusion is that there isn't one.
How do you resolve the bind here? If a supposed past life is unknown, the memory cannot be corroborated and the possibility of invention must be considered. If it can be corroborated, the person who claims to remember can also have discovered the facts, and the possibility of cheating must at least be considered. Even if reincarnation were real, it would be difficult to prove, and so far I've not seen anything that came even close to dispelling the obvious questions. I end up feeling the same way about reincarnation as about psychic communication with the dead or spoon-bending. Whether or not it's real, the quality of the product is so poor and so devoid of substantive practical use, educational value, moral guidance or just plain intelligence that it hardly matters whether it's real or not. It's worthless either way.
