Different in degree or kind: EVOLUTION (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 03, 2015, 15:50 (3612 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: As a substance dualist, you believe that there is some separate form of energy which controls our use of information, and this is what you mean by “soul”. Can you think of any reason why even the simplest organism should not have the same form of control, i.e. through some separate form of energy? (Obviously, this ties in with my question concerning gradations of consciousness/soul.)-My thoughts go only so far as accepting that the brain is a receiver of consciousness and soul, and when I think if the soul leaving the body, as in death, I conceive of it as a bundle of my own consciousness joining the universal consciousness. Therefore, there must be a brain for an organism to have a soul. Simply, the soul is a piece of universal consciousness.