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discoverer #15 Some questions are indeed unanswerable. However, even now the path to finding the ``soul`` (as traditionally understood) is actually quite clear: If a person dies and yu can ``resurrect`` him exactly the way he was when he died, then you have effectively captured his ``soul`` (as traditionally understood). Furthermore, if you are able to not just resurrect him but also fix the problem (disease, trauma, age-weakened organs) then you have in effect also given his soul immortality (as traditionally understood).

The path to the above is clear - you merely need to capture the information regarding the make-up of the indiviudal at the molecular level (dont even need to dig deeper into the sub-atomic level, let alone the string level). Advances in medicine and genetics have made this clear.

However, even if we are able to achieve `immortality`` in the traditional sense of the word, even if we have captured the ``soul`` in the traditonal sense of the word, we are still left with unanswered questions. E.g. What happens after the universe as we know it is itself ended...either through continued expansion that ultimately rips everthing (including humans) apart, per current theory; or through a Big Crunch that reduces the universe to a singularity; or something we have no conception about today. When that happens, even the path made clear by medical advances reaches a dead end. What happens to the ``soul``? Does it become nothing (like the pre-birth ``nothing`` that we came from)? Or dies the entire universe, along with its contents (including us puny humans) transform into something else?

There will thus always be a religion - and our concept of religion will be determined by the depth to which we explore concepts of religion like the ``soul`` and ``good`` and ``evil`` and ``God` and so on.