Define 'soul'?
Is a 'soul' or the idea of a 'soul'...
...different from consciousness and/or personality? If so, how?
...purely spiritual/religious in nature, or can it be organic? both?
...subject to or separate from the nature vs. nurture debate?
Lastly, do you believe it exists?
I'm asking because there seem to be a great many differing opinions on the subject, and I want to see those opinions explained/expanded on. (I want your own thoughts, not a dictionary definition.)
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I'm a materialist. No souls. By which I mean some sort of non-physical construct that is capable of carrying human consciousness, personality, etc.
As I just explained in another post, no evidence of any such thing exists, nor is there a model explaining how such a thing could exist.
We know that the consciousness is inextricably linked to the electrochemical activity of the brain. Without the support system of the brain, no consciousness.
No one can explain how something "non physical" could exist, much less how it could store memory, accept sensory input, or perceive.
The Soul is our Consciousness and Personality and it is intangible.
The Mind is where our Soul, Spirit, Personality or Consciousness resides....not to be confused with the Brain which is Physical
The Mind works through the Brain while we inhabit a Physical Body...
The Brian and Body needs the Mind to exist
whereas the Mind does not need the Brain or Body to exist.
When we die all we do is shed the Physical Body and return Home.
The Book:
The Afterlife Experiments :
Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death
Gary E. R. Schwartz
About the Author
Dr. Gary Schwartz is director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (formerly known as Human Energy Systems Laboratory) at the University of Arizona. He is currently a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona. He is a graduate of Harvard University, and has taught at both Harvard and Yale, holding the positions of professor of psychiatry and psychology for nearly three decades. He has published more than 400 academic papers.
A soul is the life-force of a person or animal. It gives them the ability to think, feel emotion and control their bodies. The personality develops as the life of the body goes on, depending on what it faces during this time. I believe souls are released when a person dies. They find a new host to incubate in, a baby that is still developing, and then live the life on in them. Some aspects of personality/ behaviour is passed on as the soul goes through the different people.
different from consciousness in that a soul covers various personalities across various time frames
different from personality in that they are opposites : the personality is the garment, the vehicle of the soul
(personality = physical, astral and mental bodies)
purely spiritual yeah but our bodies are better are tuning into it than our ego-bound minds
"Soul" has traditionally been used to mean human being. The definition got hijacked by people who wanted it to mean more, to mean a supernatural force that enters the body. There is no evidence that this is the case.
Deep inside resides the soul,few know,few see it,those who do,and have are rare,and know who they are and all that will be here and after.