I suspect people of the future will view our view of the jumble of heuristics as a type of medieval place holder for the "soul". Most people are just interchan

I suspect people of the future will view our view of the jumble of heuristics as a type of medieval place holder for the "soul". Most people are just interchanging the word "consciousness" in place of "soul" but meaning exactly the same thing. Leaving the door open for something to persist after death while fooling themselves with more scientific sounding language for a medieval belief. One is either alive or dead. There is no such property of "aliveness". One is either conscious or unconscious. There is no such property of "consciousness". It is just such an unpalatable belief but I would think that is partially because belief in the soul is a defense against psychopathy at the level of society. I am not sure we could form such large societies without belief in the soul.