Paul:

The definition of death used in medical practice is not disingenuous. It's the best they can come with for a definition.

"Soul as process" is a nice phrase. The implications of it are that the chemical and electrical ingredients of the nervous system are the entire source of thought, and awareness. Pull the battery and it all goes black.

There are some phenomena which it doesn't cover, though. Childhood memories of prior identities, remote viewing (where it has been validated), are a couple of items in the bin of relevant anomalies.

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