Soul Patrol

Saw Cold Souls, a metaphysical comedy that didn't really work. It stars Paul Giamatti, playing Paul Giamatti, who has his soul removed so he can get on with his life. But it's never really worked out properly just what the soul does and doesn't do (and there's an escape clause where the soul-removing technique leaves a bit of the soul behind). I realize we're talking about huge philosophical questions, but the movie has to work on a surface level (no matter how absurd) before we can get to them.

I was, however, reminded of a thought experiment from Raymond Smullyan. He said imagine you feel so bad you want to kill yourself, but you don't want to cause any pain to your family or friends. So you got to an establishment that sells you a pill that destroys your soul--you'll feel nothing inside--but on the outside, you do everything you'd do otherwise so no one can tell.

So you take the pill just before you go to bed. What's the first thing you do when you wake up? You go back to that establishment and complain that the pill did nothing.