How do we explain the non-physical is differentiated as the mind and the soul?

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so your question is that how can we explain scientifically that the soul is achitana if we say that there is experience then that simply points to subtle body not necessarily firstly we have to choose our battles that means we can’t fight a hundred misconceptions at the same time so the first battle we fight is is there something more than the body now what is beyond the physical what nomenclature we use that something is secondary we can discuss later but first point is is there something beyond the body so we experience emotions and if you consider the body as made of simply biochemicals biochemicals themselves don’t have consciousness so how do we experience emotions there is something beyond the body which is the experiencer now what exactly an experiencer is that is another category of question now to deal with this we have to understand that the same word can have different meanings in different context so for example the word mind now we normally we refer to the mind as the intermediate between the body and the soul like a software in a computer system hardware and user the body and the soul respectively but that is not the way the mind the word mind is used all the time we may say have you lost your mind here what does mind mean it is intelligence are you acting as a foolish so here we refer to mind as intelligence somebody is very distracted looking at here give this your full mind it is an important issue here we refer to mind as attention pay attention give this your full mind so here we use the mind in a different sense sometimes we may use the word mind to also refer to not just intelligence but intellectual capacity Einstein was one of the greatest minds of the last century that means the person with a great intellectual capacity so like that the word mind can be used in different senses so we sometimes may use the word in a particular sense and others may have another sense so your question essentially is that beyond the physical how can we know there are two levels there is mental and there is spiritual so first of all in western philosophical thought they often talk about mind matter duality and when they use the word mind in western philosophical thought that they refer to anything non-physical so in their philosophical thinking mind and soul are conflated together in one level whatever is not matter that is mind that is why Rene Descartes said Cartesian duality which is mind and matter so when we come to processing we focus two minutes we focus on the principle that the mind is actually eternal sorry there is something in us that is eternal if we just understand the concept the terminology we are talking about the mind as a means of interface so in our terminology how we define mind is it is a tool for the interface of the soul and the body just like the software is a tool for the interface of the computer and the user so if we clarify this terminology then we will understand that the mind alone cannot be enough because the mind is also software it is not the active agent it doesn’t have desires there are user who has desires who makes the software active and then makes the hardware active so if you just clarify what the terms mean then within this conception which we have three level conception the mind cannot be the ultimate reality the soul has to be the ultimate reality now somebody will say ok then just propose the soul why do you need the mind at all beyond the body there is a soul why do you have to conceive something called a mind at all but the point is there is a big philosophical discussion of how does the soul interact with the body the soul is spiritual the body is physical how does the soul interact so that interaction is through projection projection means somebody says playing a video game may be the grand auto theft or something like that they are playing that they are running they are chasing here going there going there and may be the criminals are ahead the police are behind and suppose they go by a bridge and suddenly the bridge collapses and the car falls into the river and see the car driver dies now what has happened the player also feels horrified what happened actually nothing has happened to the player but the player feels horrified because the consciousness is projected into the virtual reality so now what happens on the video screen the connection of the user of the player that has to be done through some mechanism so something may happen on the screen but there is no mechanism connecting then there will be no experience so matter physical matter and soul the mechanism for connecting them is required and that mechanism which facilitates the projection of the consciousness from the soul to the body that is what is called the mind thank you very much