By soul I just mean something about "us" which is distinct from our biology.
The question occurred to me when thinking about transgender people. As I understand it [1], the root of the trans* identity is a feeling that one lives in a biological body which does not reflect their true gender identity. Unless you're prepared to call transgender identity a mental illness, that juxtaposition suggests to me the existence of something, call it a soul, which forms an important part of our consciousness yet is separate from our physical bodies.
What do you all think?
[1] If anyone on Atlas is actually trans, I'm happy to be educated, this is just my understanding.
there's actually a good deal of research that suggests that trans women's brains are biologically more similar to cis women's than to cis men's.
