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Aristotle and the Soul
To explain anything, you have to give these four causes for that particular thing. So aristotle believed in something called form, which is that which directs, organizes and forms and unifies the matter of a thing into what it's supposed to be. And all living things have a soul. In humans, that would be consistent with humans having a form. O and that having a form or a soul permits final causality. The soul is not a separate, immaterial substance mysteriously interacting with a material body. Itis not a by product or an emergent property of the brain, or emergent entity of the brain. It's the first principle of life and those things which live.
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