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@AzQth @Mortal Reminder616 @Heartless Frost
@Lite Nightsight @Eliakub19 @Jdon Melendez @Brandon Daniels @ShayShay3698
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In the first place, that depends on the author/creator. So it's either a Maybe or Maybe not. Specific on the world/universe? Yes or No then.
It very much depends on the context. For example, it is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics that information cannot be created or destroyed. Whether that is something immaterial following a conservation law or whether its just an expression of a material conservation law is up to you.
However, I would say that many immaterial things have no reason to follow any sort of conservation law. Think about ideas, for example. If you have an idea, you are generally building that upon previous ideas, but its not like doing so destroys the component ideas. When you teach someone something, you give them knowledge on that thing, but that doesn't destroy your knowledge on the thing (in fact, it is often quite the opposite - teaching something improves your knowledge of the thing in question).
So whilst Astreax is correct in that it depends on the author, I would personally say that they don't.
What about something inbetween the Material and Immaterial, such as "Soul Stuff" (The Metaphysical Material that makes up The so-called "Immaterial Soul"); would that be finite?
@Heartz13 That one very much depends on the author. It will be different for every work of fiction.
I would personally say that is doesn't adhere to conservation laws, assuming a new soul is created from nothing whenever a person is born, and that souls never truly die outside of rare circumstances involving people with the ability to manipulate/destroy souls, so there is no 'soul stuff' being removed from one soul in order to create another. Plus, since there are an exponentially increasing number of people in the world, it couldn't really be the case that it is 'recycled' between souls - there must either be new stuff being created constantly or it must be coming from an outside source.
This is, however, only my personal opinion. As I said at the start, it is entirely dependent upon the author.
What do you think?