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What is Soul??

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 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: "psychÄ“", 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 only human so