# If all living things have souls ? - Eastern Religion

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**Created:** [October 16, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-all-living-things-have-souls-eastern-religion/132452 "2002-10-16T03:33:10Z")\
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If all living things have souls, and there are trillions (recently clarified in a GQ post) of living cells in the human body, are there a trillion souls in a living human ?

Also, do these souls have individual karma or a collective karma ? And cells die and are born at different times in the body. So is karma a dynamic entity ?