Where is my Soul?

Nobody seems to know what a "soul" really is. My 1990's copy of the Macquarie dictionary says: (1) spiritual part of person (2) inner nature, emotional and mental. That looks simple enough. Doesn't everybody have an "inner nature"?

But my old 1930's Oxford dictionary gives a different definition: (1) the immaterial part of man regarded as immortal (2) the organ of emotion, thought and will (3) spirit essence. I begin to see a few problems. What is meant by "regarded as immortal"? How can something immaterial be called an "organ"? Are the words "soul" and "spirit" synonymous?

I checked Wikipedia and found the closer you look at this subject the more complicated and confused it becomes. Every religion has a different belief about the soul, every philosopher a different philosophy. It's all just conjecture. Apparently "soul" can mean whatever you want it to.

It is not possible for science to see, feel, measure or analyse a soul. There is absolutely no scientific evidence for a soul that can exist without the human body and can survive death. More to the point though, why do we even need to postulate the existence of an immortal soul? Isn't it merely wishful thinking?

Read my previous posts:

#Heaven & Hell
#Recollections of Death
#The Atheistic Mind
#Supernaturalism is Illogical
#Non-Intelligent Design