do you think the soul could be a chemical?

The word “soul” in the Bible is a translation of the Hebrew word ne′phesh and the Greek word psy·khe′. The Hebrew word literally means “a creature that breathes,” and the Greek word means “a living being.” * The soul, then, is the entire creature, not something inside that survives the death of the body. Consider how the Bible shows that the human soul is the whole person:

Adam, a living soul, at the time of his creation

Adam was not given a soul—he “became a living soul”

When Jehovah God created the first man, Adam, the Bible says that “man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7, King James Version) Adam was not given a soul—he became a living soul, or person.

The Bible says that the soul can work, crave food, eat, obey laws, and touch a dead body. (Leviticus 5:2; 7:20; 23:30; Deuteronomy 12:20; Romans 13:1) Those activities involve the entire person.

Is the soul immortal?

No, the soul can die. Dozens of Bible verses refer to the soul as being mortal. For example, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”—Ezekiel 18:4, 20, King James Version.

Do I think that? No. Actually, imagine dreaming, and in this dream there is you and other dream characters. What is your makeup in such dream reality? Molecules? Clusters of cells? What does it even mean "molecule"? Sure in the dream, you could dissect and break down to arrive at the most indivisible level, still, what will you have discovered? And what relevance does your discovery hold in the waking world? From analogy to our particular reality - imagine we examine our fundamental biological nature to discover we are composed of cells, and atoms, which are ultimately energy coalesced into particles... and still we can;t go beyond "what is energy". What relevance will it have "if" we one |day" wake up in a hyper-waking reality with dissimilar attributes to ours? What bearing will our discoveries of us having being composed of cells and molecules have then and there? What if this reality is the projection screen, where objects casts colorful shadows of varying intensities upon it per being illuminated with back-light source? And here we are, "shadows" discussing whether it is we the shadows that are the substance, rather than the objects casting it. You ask whether if a soul can be a chemical, I propose the soul is the tangible object, while what we confuse for physical is but a mere shadow thereof, figuratively speaking. So, which is more real? I mean, ever played a video game into which you became so immersed that you literally jerked sideways in an attempt to dodge incoming missiles which were nothing more than images on a screen, yet still you dove aside (I know I did, which is why I bring up how it is possible to reside in one reality - the video-gaming room - yet become so immersed in another - the video game - so as to react to it as if it, the game, was more real than the one in which it merely resides in)

Point is, the spiritual realm is the analogous "video game room", our physical reality the ultra-immersive video game with simulated images projected onto a screen in the actual room. This is my view why the spirit is something transcendent beyond "matter and energy" inherent to our physical reality, yet, since our reality is so immersive, we "duck and dodge" as if reacting to "real things"

the illusion of a soul is chemical

Soul is the principle in the spiritual understanding.

The human brain is complex and requires a complex support network. I cannot see how a chemical can provide the same functions. How would it store memories? Magic?

your body is your spirit and your heart is your soul so is your soul a chemical?

I think the imagining of a soul, a deity, or a demon is a mind altering drug impairment, invented by ancient kings to get control of their unhappy subjects!!!

There is no such thing as a soul. That's just one more thing for non-thinking, gullible people to believe in.

The 'soul' is imaginary.

You can analyse chemicals.

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If it was a chemical it would be able to be tested and validated....You can't validate a subjective, abstract concept..