Just the Mind? Or is there Soul?

Consciousness is defined by the awareness inherent in self-reflective ability. It is a capability, that as far as our limits tell us, only is privy to human beings. In the short film, A Glorious Piece of Meat, we are told that, “consciousness talks about neurons and not the reverse”, and if we are more than just electrical impulses of the brain why then does our awareness of the world cease when one is clubbed over the head with a bat? The only reconciliation between the two is that, “we know we are more than just neurons firing or at least we do while the neurons are firing.” Admittedly this is not much of an aid in putting this argument to rest, but it does tell us about the immense task it is to take up the problem.

Recommendation: The movie “Dark City”, deals with this question as an alien species abducts and studies humans in an effort to figure them out through their minds. The main character tells us that we are more than our minds and that our essence is something that cannot be reduced to a biological process. Did he mean a soul?