Talk:Penny/@comment-25555436-20150308201601/@comment-82.46.35.19-20150422230136

I can see what you're getting at there - you're saying the show must be internally consistent with its own principles, if not necessarily with conventional laws of physics, which indeed media does all the time. And certainly, that isn't devoid of logic - indeed, such self-consistency follows logic, if not physical laws.

I think what SaM was getting at though was more that, if such a thing such as soul in RWBY existed, it would likely be studied under the branch of physics, since if it is observable it would be a physical event in the sense that it does not exist an as abstract concept but as a thing within the universe. Now it wouldn't have to necessarily follow the laws of physics as we understand them, as long as it follows its own natural laws (and then it would be following laws of physics of the shows kind, if not of our kind).

So yes, they may not follow our laws of physics, I agree with you on that, though they would be physical in the sense that they do not exist as abstract concepts within our minds but as things within the physical universe - it exists in re, not in intellectu.