re: Well he gave an answer.
I'll tell you what I told SDAI a while ago. If human souls exist, and survive death, you'd better damn well hope they have little to do with conventional physics.
The idea of being able to manipulate, alter, or destroy souls with advanced engineering is not something you want to think about.
Those little glass spheres you see in novelty shops, with the dim lightning shimmering inside them, the lightning that reaches for your hand when you touch the glass?
Do you really want to know how they work?