The Soul

[Rhizomorph13]

I think "soul" is a word for the driver of our body. A previous iteration of this idea was the homunculus which was supposed to be a little person that lived inside your head that directed your actions (what directs the homunculus' actions?). Well, when we cracked open our heads and realized that there was no little person, we invented an incorporeal thingy that was the driver, because the experience of being a person lends itself to a feeling of seperation from our bodies. I believe that to be a hallucination. We are but meat and energy; what we experience as existence is simply an interplay between the two.

http://origin-of-consciousness.blogspot....ivial.html

The modern description of the link between brain activities and subjective experience starts from the assumption that there is no "little person" in the brain monitoring the neural activities in various areas of the brain. The "exorcision" of the Homunculus was a necessary and essential step in the advancement of cognitive neuroscience, and the concept of the "neural correlate" is the de facto central dogma in neurophenomenology today.

It is my opinion that the sooner we abandon the idea of the soul the better. It will enable a clearer way to exchange ideas without resorting to "feelings" that originate from our "spirit/soul".