Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: The soul is just a poetic name for a process

Consciousness isn’t a mystical notion - it’s a PROCESS that EMERGES from the intricate, organized interplay of matter, especially within neural networks. This dynamic activity gives rise to higher-order emergent phenomena we recognize as subjective experience.

This doesn’t make the human experience any less profound - it just grounds it in reality rather than mysticism.