X-Message-Number: 21326
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 08:25:47 -0500
From: Francois <>
Subject: For Yvan Bozzonetti, a soul's definition

I can easily purchase all the basic elements that make up a human body. If I
mix them together, I will not get a human body, living or dead. Yet, the
mixture will have the same chemical composition as a living human body.
What's missing? The soul, obviously. So by this example, a soul can be
defined as whatever brings life to a living organism. And what would turn my
mixture of chemicals into a living human would be the information needed to
put its constituent atoms in the correct place and link them to the correct
neighboring atoms. A sould is therefore the sum of the information contained
in the atomic structure of a living thing. It's a very valuable thing indeed
and I can understand why daemons would seek to acquire it ;-)

Francois
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