What is a soul?

Evidence. Evidence is everywhere. The key factor here is evidence
of what? This entirely depends on how one views the evidence.A person with a drug habbit can exhibit many personality characteristics that bring us to determine they "are not themselves" however, we understand it was "they" who "experienced" A drug habit is a physical trauma that affects the brain. It is life and personality altering sometimes permanently and ending in death. Alzheimers is no different in this respect. You are assuming that the ability to express onself is not an ability.
When you were younger your ability to express yourself emotionally was far less than it is now. It will continue to change. It's not magic. It's physical changes that allow you to do this. If these areas are damaged it will set you back or prevent you permanently from having those types of experiences. You may compensate for the loss in very different ways than we "normal" people would consider reasonable. I have had a number of first hand experinces. I don't need to google.
My father, 3 neighbors, A woman who was an adopted grandmother "if you will". A friend who died of a rare disease at 37. His last 3 months wer very hard. His wife was hurt and thought it was the disease affecting his brain, because he was mean and kept babbling divource shortly before he went.It broke her heart because he would insist and get violent. We later realized he was trying to free her of the 100,000 in medical expenses he knew would pile up. That poor son of a bitch tried his best to the bitter end. I miss that guy. A good person who died before his time. I have first hand experience. That is why I understand that a fact is a fact but how it is interpreted is up to the individual.
A fact: WE DIE.....undisputed.........the question is....what about it? Everything after the basic fact is nothing but opinion and belief.
Are we our brains or are they just like another limb allowing us to to experience the world? No one has the answer. No facts support things either way. I am not clear where you see a problem.
Soul experiences and expresses: love, hate, yearning, surprise, humbling,joy, embarassment, rage, sorrow,
pitty, remorse... ect. I incorporate all new exerinces and grow in knowledge and understanding.
I am not these things I experience or the things others experience from me. This is my belief. It holds no more water than any other. I recognise that fact.

We change throughout life. So where do you draw the line? Is there a line? I understand that no one knows. We have opinions based upon what we believe. You are welcome to yours. I am not against discussing. But to claim evidence suports your view simply becasue of how you choose to interpret it knowing full well there is no answer known? Ouch.
The above is your point of view based upon your belief/how you see the world.

Relax. I simply want you to understand I have a fair amount very real experience. I delt quite personally with each of these people. We can learn from clinical studies but we miss much. They lack in real human experience of the person. If I truly want to know about a particular case I would ask the family before I asked someone doing a study.
I will tell you I have first hand experience seeing someone go from being very "not themesleves" to understanding their plight and not being able to put it into words. You see it in their eyes. When ask them I have seen tears run down their faces. They are scared to death because the know what is happening.....then...poof! their gone again. The thought of it makes me weep. My neighbor across the street used to come over pushing his lawn mower. He and his wife were in their 80's She would lock him out of the house because she could not deal with him. Poor fellow would knock on the door "Help me, Please help! I'm not a crook." A proud man did the best he could when his wife pushed him away. I spent a lot of time taking him back home and babysitting the both of them because her hysteria about him would just freak him. He would go off and she would call him crazy to his face. I spent many days talking sense into her and calming him down. He was there to be experienced. The going was tough though. He responded to things as best he could with what he had left.

One clear distinction is a recognition of one God.So there is the view that the soul is a tool or vessel that conveys our "essense"?
So an essense contained within a soul vessel carried by a body?
Interesting.Edited by 2ice_baked_taters, : No reason given.