Actually, kidding of Fyron aside, the idea of a computer program is an interesting perspective on the whole "Does a soul have mass" question. I don't think a computer program could be defined as having mass while it's stored in memory. The silicon chip or magnetic tape has the same mass and number of electrons regardless. It's just that the little bits are in different positions depending on if they are ones or zeros.
I suppose the real question though is whether the soul has mass outside of the body though. Heaven and hell could be massive storage banks, the same as a human body but larger, that don't actually change their mass when souls enter or leave. Just rearange some bits to represent the loading and unloading of the soul/program.
But that brings up other questions.
How does the soul get from the body to the eternal storage archive? Is it like radio waves? Do radio waves have mass?
Can the number of souls exceeds the storage capacity of either heavan or hell? And if so, what happens to the overflow?
Can souls be zip compressed?
Can you repartition heavan?
Should I take the red pill, or the blue one.
[ August 18, 2003, 15:04: Message edited by: geoschmo ]