[Iacchus]

If we die and return to oblivion (i.e., non-existence), does that mean the fact that we were here was simply a fantasy? How do we prove otherwise when, in fact, according to oblivion, we were never here? One would think that there be something more substantial to the "we" that possessed the brain and the body. If not, then it was only a figment of its imagination. The only way we could possibly escape our dilemma, is to say that we have a soul, that is in possession of both the brain and the body and, that the soul lives on after death. In which case we have just added substance, to what otherwise had no basis for existence.