Our 'Soul'

Yesterday at a presentation I was asked to define 'Soul.' I found difficulty in describing this type of question. Being a surgeon, I face such question many times. I am working on Spiritual Health for last many years, and I found such issues are due to the complexities of our thought process and ambiguities in our understanding. I like to explain these questions on my scientific knowledge and reasonings. Religious answers will be different for different people of different religious beliefs, but scientific reasoning and science will be equal and same for all people of different faiths. This is the reason that I found scientific thought process nearer to spiritual thought process than the religious thought process.
We know that every living systems from a unicellular animal like Amoeba to human beings, all have life in their cells. A living system can be defined by its ability to produce energy to sustain it and reproduce it. If any system is unable to do this, it means it has no life. It applies to a single cell and a system of cells.
A living system is living because of life in it. With this reasoning, we can say that the life is energy. The 'Soul' and its existence is not possible without life since only a living system will have a soul. So we can say that the life is 'soul' or energy is 'soul.' Every living system will have the soul. In higher animals like mammals, the soul has multiple dimensions of consciousness, intelligence, reasoning, feelings, emotions, etc. with all their thought processes.
In human beings due to the natural evolutionary mechanism, we have DNA with evolved coding in the nucleus of our cells, so we are having very developed thought processes in our brain. These thought processes are complex biochemical reactions in our brain which are responsible for the formation of thoughts in our brain. Spiritual thought processes and spirituality are highly developed human thought processes. In fact, our spiritual thought process makes us human.
Therefore, to conclude the existence of the soul is possible only with life. So, we can define 'Soul' as energy that sustains and reproduce a living system with its consciousness.

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