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Originally Posted by james0246
Considering Orochimaru's lost arms, a soul can obviously be split (Voldemort style).
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Copying and splitting are very different things. Splitting would also mean that the original one lost part of it's soul, and then Orochimaru should have lost his arms regardless of how many body switches he does. Regaining his soul-arms by switching bodies was kinda stupid.
To answer questions about copying and splitting we would have to define what is a soul and does it need to have a unique personality (memories, consciousness, will, and whatver else we can call the properties of a mind). That is what defines the mind of a person. I would tie it to the soul. But we see that chakra also can have a will of it's own, as we see when kage bunshins can think on their own, and they think of themseves as a real person thinks of himself. But there should be a distinction because a kage bunshin knows that he is a kage-bunshin, the distinction can be that it remembers the act of his creation, that is when the original created him by using the jutsu. And so a kage-bunshin is not afraid to die, since it considers itself as only a part of the original, also when it suicides (dispells itself) then it's memory returns to the original. Then there were the clones of Minato and Kushina in Naruto's body, these were copies of the mind of Minato and Kushina, but just chakra copies and not the real thing. So the mind of a person resides in the soul, and the mind can be copied just like the body by using chakra, but those copies are not the real thing because the chakra is slowly consumed and these go away.
That is why i wrote that for the real return of Orochimaru the soul is needed, and it is unique, it cannot be copied, neither can the body.
BTW the recording and movie industry would be so happy if perfect digital copying of their music and movies would not be possible
Movies being downloaded from the internet would decay and vanish over time, only the originals would exist
Funny thing is they made advertisments suggesting that digital copies are broken