Do animals have souls?

what kind of answer is that? so just because you disagree with it you have the right to handwave it? how disingenious of you. you said theres no way of testing self-awareness and he showed you a test! this is a science forum where you at least make the effort of backing up what you say, so what do you have to back up what you say? umm all science is tentative, the science behind the very comeputer you are using is tentative, how is being not 100% relevent when its right 99% of the time? i guess walking across that bridge would be impossible since you might have that 1% that the bridge fails on you? no we are having a debate where we try to show evidence for our argument for why our stance is logical and factual.
the thing is thier is no evidence so far of anything pertaining to the soul as part of life ok you have no idea what you are talking about as far as depression, since we can pinpoint where depression begins and what causes it,whether full on abuse mental disorder or chemical imbalance in the brain - all of them are testible or at least treatible with some scientific-based drug or therepy.
it has nothing to do with the spiritual - i thought we left that idea back in the dark ages with crops and sheep being cursed by witchs and demons causing the black plague
name a person who has with evidence killed themselves over a spirtual problem that didn't have some sort of mental disorder ok now you are just spliting hairs, you can't have faith in words, i'm sorry is this suposed to be some sort of argument? this to me looks like you are grasping at straws and its hardly convincing then why are you posting to a bloody debate site! for gods sake man read what you are posting! you are making no sense at all! if you don't want people to argue with you over things like this go start a bloody blog or go outside and find another hobby why would he have to deny his own existance? you havn't really come up with a good argument why a person who doesn't believe in a soul can't believe they exist
no meaning is what you give your life, you are equating two things a meaning and a meaning outside of the self by an external supernaturual being. they are two entirely different things, one we can at least find evidence for (personal meaning) the other (sexpected supernatural meaning) we can not no you are making it simplistic, and limiting it to one option when there are millions more science can answer, since it is also a philosophy, hell all science is philosophy
but anyway, the problem i see is i have yet to see what is defined as a soul, much less how you know its there!, can you answer me that? how do you know if something has a soul if you can't observe it?
science answers that by saying something that can't be observed somehow most likely isn't there

what the hell does that even mean? how is it silly to give an example of a test, you asked for? you have no basis for rejecting this other than "i don't like it" thats whats silly that animals have self-awareness? or what? you arn't making any effort at all to answer anything no that is frustration over your non-answers i hear words but they seem more like buzzing than anything. i said souls are not real since there is no evidence for them, people seem to have different meanings for a soul, so we can;t even define it.the brain is where everything stems from we know this from evidence.do you even know how we detect forces? or are you using it in the scientific way or your made up definition of you being a "force"?
forces are detectible from the affects of forces, such as gravity pulling things to the center of say a planet, i'm starting to wonder if you deny forces even though we know they exist pretty easylyall i have to say is man, you need to get off the acid you're almost as bad as brad