So that's fine, but tell me particle physicists aren't making up bullshit new particles every day to solve problems. Now, his talk made sense he basically said that given the success of the standard model as a theory (it's wildly successful accurate predictions to within dozens of decimal places up the wazoo), and the fact that it doesn't take into account a particle that would act like a soul (something that only interacts with 'living' matter, or is even able to make that distinction), q.e.d there can't be a soul. I heard a presentation once from Sean Carroll (if you're not familiar with him, he does popular lectures on cosmology and particle physics, and also blogs and writes books) about a particle physics argument for the non-existence of the soul. This reminds me, actually, of something that annoys me about physicists.
