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A long time ago scientists thought that they had managed to weigh a person's "soul" when they put a corpse on a scale and the weight changed after death. It was actually the weight of the breath exiting the body, but I think this time it's safe to say that this is definitely your soul glowing
It's just inefficiencies in your cells' processing of energy being released as light.
Yeah, isn't it basically blackbody radiation? We're warm so we glow
No, because the control was a non-living body at the same temperature, and blackbody radiation is a function of temperature alone.