What is the channel by which the soul gives signals to the brain?

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the first question is if the mind is what is giving signals to the body for functioning then what is when where is the soul what is the need for the soul in the system which or the channel by which the soul acts yeah so actually the mind is not what gives a signal it is the mind is different from the brain the brain is a physical structure so roughly going back to the computer metaphor the brain you could say is like a cpu certain processing unit of the computer and the cpu of the computer is central to the functioning of computer but that is not the software so the mind is the software the brain is the cpu for the body so now in the case of the stas the software it gives its signals whatever is used to the cpu and from there it goes everywhere mind gives the signals to the brain and what is the connection between the soul the mind and the brain that is primarily through misidentification or through projected identification if you know we have must have played video games in which say somebody is driving a car and if you take the video game metaphor further you could have a virtual reality in which say a person is driving a car in the in the virtual reality in a movie or the video and we have a simulated environment so where we sit on a chair where our hands are touching the wheels of a car we have earphones which give us the sound similar to what you would get if you were riding in the car and we we have leg brakes and other accelerators so basically in a virtual reality we get similar sensory interface as the car driver gets actually the virtual reality and the essential connection between us and the car driver is through our identification we identify with the car driver and to the extent there is identification to that extent there will be emotional involvement so for example the car is going along and suddenly there’s a big truck comes out of the crash i’ll be horrified as if i got the accident why because i am emotionally involved in it so essentially for the soul the soul is the source of consciousness and that consciousness is projected through the mind onto the body and then that projected consciousness is channeled through the brain to the way through the body to the outer world so when we sleep for example there is the consciousness of the soul which is projected primarily to the level of the mind that projection doesn’t happen to the level of the body so much and that’s why when i’m sleeping i may not i don’t see what is happening in front of me so the projection of the soul is through identification that is what causes the body which is a machine to become activity so in our case just like we may control a computer by our by touching the key or nowadays there are voice control devices so i may speak open chrome search temperature now whatever now there can be voice activated come on so physically there is no connection between me and the computer but through my voice it can be activated so like that the soul and the body are different in the 13th chapter of the bhagavad-gita 34th text a metaphor is given that the sun is far away from the earth but from there the sun activates the vegetation the growth of vegetation the photosynthesis that happens with the vegetation when the sun rises the whole of nature comes alive birds start chirping the flowers start blossoming and plant that a significant phase of their growth happens so how is that happening the sun’s rays are traveling from the sun to the earth so similarly the soul is different from the body but just as the sun causes by the projection of its energy by the projection of its rays onto the earth it causes the activation of things on the earth similarly the soul by the projection of its consciousness on the body causes the body to become activated so that is how the connection between the soul and the body is primarily through projection and identification okay and what about the concept of soul mates