Tonight on the Science channel, a special was aired that dealt with the soul. It's amazing to me that people are trying to define that idea in scientific terms. Mainly, though, the soul is the mind, or the way the brain's neural network is designed. The documentary included a neurosurgeon, a couple of psychologists who monitor the subconscious, and a neuroscientist/cognitive scientist who all have tried to track what happens in the brain during both waking and sleeping hours. The bottom line is that we still do not know, but some clear direction is starting to emerge on what areas to study.
Interestingly enough the word in Greek for soul is psyche. So they were on the trail of the right pursuit all along. It's the mind that gives rise to the idea of what outlives the body.
The most interesting idea is that our minds with all of their philosophies and views (the sum total of the connections we make daily and cumulatively) are nothing more than an amalgam of every influence from events or people that we have either encountered or that we allow to have even the smallest influence.
All I know is that my mind or soul or psyche or substance that makes sense of experience definitely bears the stamp of one experience I have had in life more than any other. Wouldn't it be nice if it would be that experience to outlive my body. I would be buried with a smile and my mind would fully enjoy infinity.
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