Brain and soul is different

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How do you know souls have a location?
Is it left side or right side given that humans can still function with half a brain.
Or is it in the brain stem?

Do 16 cell human zygotes (with no brain or nervous system) have a soul. If so where is it located?

Intellective souls are really pure spirit arent they - and so “location” is a meaningless term as it only applies to matter. Perhaps you really mean intellectual souls are known to exist by means of brain function? In which case your soul could be on the other side of the universe - and still controlling your brain and your body just as well.
 
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BUT a teapot orbiting outside Alpha Centaur may not be physically seen or observed by your naked eyes, but can be otherwise verifiable by ‘science.’ That teapot, being made of physical matter
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No, the teapot is invisible and undetectable by science.
 
God help us.
This is where you go to understand the Catholic Church’s teaching on souls 😂.
 
Many claim that brain activity produces consciousness, but there is now more and more credibility on the part that of clinicians that cosciousness produces brain activity. That, in turn, begs the question… “What causes consciousness?” Perhaps a soul?

It is the only theory that adiquately addresses the fact that accounts of near death experiences are not random and disorganized, but detailed and highly ordered. One would be hard pressed to show how a dying and malfunctioning brain produces such coherent experiences.
 
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It is the only theory that adiquately addresses the fact that accounts of near death experiences are not random and disorganized, but detailed and highly ordered.
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The rest is good but not sure about this.
If there is one thing that the mind does - its to make clear coherent sense out of confusion.
If that is done at the subconscious level (as in sleep) then the waking consciousness remembers and feels only clarity…even if it is totally made up.

Perhaps that is why it is easy to get someone to wet their pants by dipping their fingers in water while they sleep. Like its really clear they need to go to the toilet. Or drip a teaspoon of water in their ear - they will wake up screaming fearing they are drowning. Don’t do it - they will hate you for life as I found out as a teenager.
 
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I guess it’s kind of like those times the enlisted men put grenades under my bed. 😎
 
Oh really. So you want to artificially change the construct to make it 'invisible"? Not really fair. Physical matter can be detected scientifically (theoretically) when ‘the eye’ does not perceive it.
 
And you still haven’t answered me. Perhaps (I know I tend to the ‘wordy’) you weren’t able to ‘see’ the question.

Flat out: Do you believe in only a physical “Natural” universe (consisting of the universe and all objects within, whether seen or not seen by you personally but all consisting of matter), or do you believe there could be a SuperNatural (things which exist ‘above’ or ‘outside’ of nature/matter)?
 
This is a difficult question to answer, since modern neuroscience lacks a comprehensive understanding of precisely what consciousness is and how it is produced.

Researchers haven’t actually identified, as-of-yet a neural correlate in the brain which generates the subconscious processes that lead to the contents or experience of consciousness. That’s the so-called “hard problem”: precisely what leads a lump of grey matter and neural networks to experience a rich inner, first-person perspective of qualia and the reason why natural selection would result in the universe becoming aware of itself in the form of localized, complex chemical beings.

Natural selection could have made equally effective use of unconscious zombies without the “experience” of awareness and just directed by our unconscious/subconscious processes. As such, the reason why the experience of consciousness arose is a great problem for science and remains unsolved, with no theory yet found which one could characterize as the “silver-bullet” that would result in a Nobel Prize being awarded.

So to be quite frank with you, there is no testable answer at present and anything anybody offers in this thread is speculative from a scientific perspective.

I readily admit that I myself have no clue.
 
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