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THE SOUL

INTRO

"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."

–Daniel Defoe

"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul."

–Dorothy Day

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul"

–Ludwig Wittgenstein

"With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?"

–Henry David Thoreau

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."

–Epictetus

"The authentic self is the soul made visible."

–Sarah Ban Breathnach

For some, the soul is merely consciousness. The possibilities of, and the thought surrounding that of the robotic mind are discussed in MIND. But for some, for most of us, the soul is not quite that easy to explain. We aren’t even sure it exists, it’s beyond science. It’s one of those religious and mythological theories that somehow gather people of all beliefs or non-beliefs behind it. Do you believe in having a soul? Not very controversial, even for an atheist to answer that they do.

What is it then? Maybe that’s not possible to explain, or even know. So how can we know when a man made object, an object that might one day actually think and become as intelligent as we are, gets to have a soul? Is it ever possible? And how would we design it?