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Comment by Tarq0n

5 hours ago

Dualism is almost always unhelpful as a model. Your soul is a process your body runs, they are indistinguishable.

It doesn't have to be a reference to dualism. We can draw a distinction between specific patterns of brain activity and the body that realizes it. "I" exist only when the characteristic property of neural activity that realizes the self is present. I am the realization of this second-order property. Here the "soul" is this specific pattern of dynamics realized by my body's neurons.