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Article: In search of a 'soulful' soul: emergence vs. the supernatural.(Critical essay)

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The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary HarperOne, 2007 384 pages. $25.95

Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness B. Alan Wallace Columbia University Press, 2007 176 pages. $24.50

Ever since I began learning about world philosophies, I have been drawn to practical ways of thinking about the human soul.

For example, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said that soul is the functional unity of a thing. The way to detect the soul is not to hire a shaman to look for an immaterial substance but rather to study the form and function of an entity. Can the ...

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