Randall isn’t saying anything about the person herself “doesn’t go anywhere – he’s just gone” (Jeff). Rather because of the boundaries of the metaphor the adult is explaining, along with the issues with simplifying things for a kid (so they can understand the idea in its most abstract way), “just gone” can mean “gone to Heaven” just as easily as it can mean ‘vanished into oblivion.’ While Randall’s cartoon is largely agnostic on the matter and confines itself to discussing just the parts, Jeff’s comment is a largely atheistic conjecture – one that assumes that human beings are based in, associated with, or else trapped in their legos.

Look at it another way. Every atom of your body gets replaced every decade or so due to natural processes. Essentially, there is nothing in your body that you can claim belongs to you. Yet *you* remain constant.

So what are you? Are you your memories? No, those change. Are you the configuration of your body? No that changes. Are you your thoughts? No those change. Every single material thing about you changes, yet *you* still remain. This strongly implies that the *you* that doesn’t change cannot be material. In other words, *you* are that part of the composite person you think yourself to be that doesn’t change. For the sake of simplicity, let’s call this entity a soul.

So what are the properties of a soul? Memories? Well there’s Alzheimers….. Rationality? Well there’s drugs….. Consciousness? Sound’s possible — material items aren’t conscious. Subrational intuition? Serles Chinese Room definitely and our ability to solve some NP complete problems quickly with intuition points to a definite possibility.