Unveiled Artist
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I can't remember if I posted this topic, but this is a more biological and philosophical view of how people define the soul or spirit rather than purely religious.
The spirit or energy that animates living creatures; the soul.
The force or influence that gives something its vitality or strength.
Some people call it god.
Thoughts?
The dictionary calls it a life-force:Vitalism is the belief that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some non-physical element or are governed by different principles than are inanimate things".[1][a] Where vitalism explicitly invokes a vital principle, that element is often referred to as the "vital spark", "energy" or "élan vital", which some equate with the soul. In the 18th and 19th centuries vitalism was discussed among biologists, between those who felt that the known mechanics of physics would eventually explain the difference between life and non-life and vitalists who argued that the processes of life could not be reduced to a mechanistic process. Some vitalist biologists proposed testable hypotheses meant to show inadequacies with mechanistic explanations, but these experiments failed to provide support for vitalism. Biologists now consider vitalism in this sense to have been refuted by empirical evidence, and hence regard it either as a superseded scientific theory,[4] or, since the mid-20th century, as a pseudoscience.[5][6]
Vitalism - Wikipedia
The spirit or energy that animates living creatures; the soul.
The force or influence that gives something its vitality or strength.
Some people call it god.
Thoughts?