Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160123155826/@comment-25396609-20160124185355

Gamma Venom 567 wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: You can have similar personalities without being a reincarnation you know, and given what we know of the nature of the soul in Remnant reincarnation is just not possible.

Unlike most worlds, the soul if a physical thing that can be moved between hosts using technological means, when you die it's gone, reincarnation be damned. That sounds like it is only for robots like Penny.

The soul in Remnant is physically bound to the body, with no anchor it would fade from existance.

As it stands, Shadow at Morning and I have come ot the conclusion that the soul is a byproduct of a sufficiently complex neural net, the aura is a projection of the energy generated by it (whether that is the electromagnetic field or some other energy is the ne aspect Shadow and I dissagree on)

The reason Penny is capable of generating an aura is that she is a computer with a computer core sophisticated enough to emulate the human brain and nervous system.

A soul fades away upon death because the neural net that acts as the base decays, when it decays the soul breaks apart with it, entirely ceasing to exist.