From the other direction, spiritual folks have had the concept of the soul since forever, but it’s obviously hard to put into scientific terms. However-
1. On that Lex podcast above, Levin describes a feature of death that seems to make no evolutionary sense - beings will give up and die when their situation seems hopeless, but in identical situations when they still have hope, it demonstrates they have plenty of energy to fight (example experiment with rats trapped in water, some taught that if they hold on long enough they get rescued). Why ever have ANY instinct to give up if the goal is to perpetuate your genes, surely any cost is worth paying? That does sound a lot like a video game player resetting the game, though…
2. Excellent book by a full skeptic neuroscientist who investigates spirituality/psychic phenomena/pseudoscience mumbo jumbo, and is ultimately brought to accept the evidence suggests the physical plane is not all there is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58977909-proof-of-spiritual-phenomena
Could add much more but I’ll leave it there for now
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