"Souls are theologically based. They are a form of superstition. No one has ever measured one in a laboratory. "

Stringsinger's argument is lucid and understandable, but it is flawed by important omission. The primary semantic freight laden onto the word "soul" may indeed be theological, deriving from our Judeo-Chrtistian heritage.   But there is this "baby and bathwater" caveat. Thereis abundant evidence that a unit awareness uses a plurality of unit mental recordings to arrange its understanding of life. Every person who posts on any of these threads is doing exactly that. There is abundant evidence that the power of the unit of awareness to intend, decide or construct parts of the mindset it operates in seeking to solve the problems of life (and pose the right problems to solve) is of primary importance in the disposition and well being of the organism.

Frank himself is a living example of an owner/operator shuffling such mental constructs, and deciding things and putting then out there. There is nothing theological about this observation; but it is highly possible (and to my mind, probable) that in doing so he reveals his nature as a soul in action, not in the theological sense but in the ultimate sense of the aware center of the melodrama called a human being.

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