For most people, the soul seems to be a just happy feeling of already achieved selfhood. A thing they do not have to optimize, or consider the form of. Very few people say things like "I'm a bit removed from my soul today" or "my soul is almost in reach!".
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I feel that I have largely lost my soul, and I notice it by observing that I am not immersed in experience but in abstractions. Feelings and experiences are distractions coming in from a distant land.
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I would like to encourage you to have an open mind about what the soul might be. Perhaps it is more closely bound to emotions than to ideas. Perhaps it is multi-dimensional. Perhaps it is not separate and individual. This is all to be explored. Preconceptions may be limiting
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Very nice exposition on the mental construct of indiv "soul"!
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AKA, our DNA. :-)
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Platonic... lol
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Well put.
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Does this relate to your idea that the spirit is the animating force of the organism? I thought spirit/software is mostly externally 'generated' by culture and genetics, but perhaps the mental level of 'soul' is an agent-ish component of this larger spirit.
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It provides the virtual illusion (Langer, bless her) of the infinite.
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Is there a reason why you adopt religious/esoteric terms (soul, spirit,...) in a scientific discussion? It feels a bit like religious/esoteric people adopting scientific terms (energy, quantum) in their discussions.
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I would not use them in a scientific discussion. I just noticed that in the course of understanding AI, mind and society, we come up with equivalents to old concepts that have been mistranslated, mostly because of the interference between Christian mythology and original meaning.
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