A soul is not a ghost in a machine or a mere emergent property. It is not an occult claim or a material reduction—the soul is the form of the body, an animating force that separates the living from the non-living.
27 June 2024
Body & Soul
With Fr Dominic Legge, OP, JD, STL, STD, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the Thomistic Institute.
A soul is not a ghost in a machine or a mere emergent property. It is not an occult claim or a material reduction—the soul is the form of the body, an animating force that separates the living from the non-living.
A soul is not a ghost in a machine or a mere emergent property. It is not an occult claim or a material reduction—the soul is the form of the body, an animating force that separates the living from the non-living.
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