I'll have what Phage is having.....puff puff give

IMO, the awareness of your identity creates your soul.

So, the 'soul' is indistinguishable from consciousness?

That sounds right.

Then what happens when you are unconscious? Or under anesthesia? Is your soul on hiatus?

Hmmm. What I meant was...consciousness = being, so then that is all 'soul' is.

I have nothing to add except that it would be awesome to talk to conjoined twins about this. If I step on one foot, can they both feel the pain? What if I poke just one ear? Can you knock one unconscious but not the other?

Depends on how their nervous system is shared.
The Bunker twins would have had a no-no-yes set of answers, while Lori and George Schappell might have a very different set of answers.

Even more interestingly, people with multiple personalities would have more than one soul.

I'm a quad-core brain! :nuts:

I think in terms of "essence" attached to a limited "Dasein".

Namaste.

How do you explain when the soul leaves the body? Don't laugh,it's actually happened to me before.

And just where did it think it was going?

"Return to sender, address unknown.
No such number, no such zone."

I'll have to do some digging for the story, Sugar, but I read recently about a series of experiments in which the experience of leaving the body was recreated. I'm not sure if they were using chemical or electrical stimulation of the relevant brain area, but apparently it was a very strange experience for the subjects.