Soul & Spirit
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Definitions
Several elaborated definitions for soul and spirit are available at Wikipedia.
The one from the section - Materialistic Science and Soul is the closest to our concept of Soul-Information:
Popular presentation of the dominant scientific view of the soul often uses the “computer paradigm”, which compares the brain to hardware and the mind (mental processes traditionally subsumed under the concept of “soul”) to software. The departure of a brain/hardware leaves no place for functioning mind/software. This eliminative approach to the soul is exemplified by Paul Churchland and his book The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul. In that book, Churchland argues that there is no need for the idea of a non-material soul, that we can fully account for the soul in terms of material brain activity, and that the link between the brain and consciousness is primarily a matter of information processing that can be understood in terms of computational models.
If interested, here is a critique of Churchland’s Engine of Reason.
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Some fascinating dicussions about Consciousness on meaningoflife.tv - Robert Wright interviews Daniel Dennett
the evangelist
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