Science and medicine seek naturalistic accounts of the observable natural world. This stance is known as methodological naturalism[8], which is silent on the question of whether non-material or supernatural entities, such as the soul, can or do exist as distinct from natural entities. Scientists, therefore, investigate the soul as a human belief or as concept that shapes cognition and understanding of the world (see Memetics), rather than as an entity in and of itAn oft-encountered analogy is that the brain is to the mind as computer hardware is to computer software. The idea of the mind as software has led some scientists to use the word "soul" to emphasize their belief that the human mind has powers beyond or at least qualitatively different from what artificial software can do
What is Soul??
Noun: the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in and by humans, regarded as a definite entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part. In many religious, philosophical and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Greek: "psychē", of "psychein", "to breathe") are the mental abilities of a living being: reason, character, feeling, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking, etc. Depending on the philosophical system, a soul can either be mortal or immortal . But mostly its believed and In Judeo-Christianity, only human beings have immortal souls (although immortality is disputed within Judaism and may have been influenced by Plato). For example, the Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas attributed "soul" ( anima ) to all organisms but argued that...
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