One Soul Movement  The belief that the soul is not duplicated
during the process of mind-state copying  Image from Steve
Bowers  Many sophonts, both bioid and aioid alike, believe in
the existence of a soul, a spiritual component of a thinking
being, which may or may not be immortal according to creed. The
development of uploading and mind-state copying caused many
religions to consider the process by which one individual with a
unique soul becomes two or more individuals, and whether or not
the new individuals also have souls themselves. Many religions,
such as the Etodists, believe that the soul is multiplied when
an individual is copied, and the new soul(s) are equal in every
respect to the old one. Others, such as the Soul-Divisionists,
believe that the soul is divided and weakened by copying, a
process which can only be healed by spiritual development over
time. Another line is followed by the One Soul movement,
proponents of which state that the act of copying does not
produce a new soul at all.  The On