Material Soul, Not Transcendent

Science can treat subjective experience as a natural, embodied phenomenon rather than as proof of a metaphysically separate soul. Under this view, we keep the vocabulary of 'soul' and 'inner life' but locate them as emergent, perspectival features of brain‑body processes, not as things that exist beyond nature. — If adopted publicly, this reframing changes how religious, ethical, and legal debates (especially about AI personhood, end‑of‑life, and spiritual identity) are argued and policed.