because a principle is a description of something and not a thing in and of itselfa principle is not a desription.Principle: That from which anything proceeds in any way whatsoever.That "that" is a thing. Like a point is the principle of a ray, your soul is the principle of self movement.
organic chemistryThat means everything that is part of our life must be organic.Abstracts concepts, a part of our intellectual life are not organic. You cannot touch them. So there must be something more than just organic chemistry.Unless you can give me where science has tagged in the brain where concepts themselves are, there is no way around that.
the word you're looking for here is "origin"
data storage can be identified
Is that the same as the concept itself? Nope...
soul is the principle of self movement
do you believe that software is magical ?
uncreated and uncaused
uncreated and uncausedI never said that, nor implied it.
do you believe that software is magical ?No.
what motivates the actions of your "soul" ?
Your brain produces an image and the soul takes that, unites it to itself, thus giving us understanding (i.e. intellectual knowledge) and from that the will chooses to act or not to act.
is the "spirit" motivated by its design AND its experiences ?
A soul does what it does. Its "motivation" as you call it ( I would call it "what it does") is to know and to will. It is designed to know and to will. nothing more.The soul does not have "experiances" as I think you mean it here. Experiances are something our brains and our bodies have. Our soul simply knows and either wills or does not will to act upon the concept that arises from the image in the mind which has its principle or origin in the senses.
it can never learn anything
and it is not controlled by your human body
What the soul learns is what the thing is.
just say "the soul is an inscrutable black-box" that animates human flesh
and is also not controlled by or able to be predicted by YHWH
just say "the soul is an inscrutable black-box" that animates human fleshThat would be to say that we know nothing about it. That is not true. I would be lying if I said that.
it uses the image the brain makes to understand deeper what the thing is
It is designed to know and to will.
...soul takes that (image from the brain), unites it to itself, thus giving us understanding (i.e. intellectual knowledge) and from that the will chooses to act or not to act.
It controls the human body.
"souls" accumulate and process data based on their original design specifications ?
That is not really the language I would use. You can say that as long as you understand that The data is not something material.
then they are functionally indistinguishable from my description of a human mind
The soul of a person is different from the human mind.
And no, I still do not think functunionality determines whatness.
i only care about function
To say that because we can see a very general similiarity in functionality imlies that we are talking about the same thing is absurd. Youy might as well say that an axe and a blender are the same thing because they chop and slice. or that "a river and a flood and the ocean and a lake are the same thing because they have flowing water."
One will very quickly fall into absurdities if this is his process of thought.
a rock has a nature and accumulates data and exhibits behavior that is exactly"the sum of these things
What about purpose? Is that in your equation?
"A rock accumulates data and exhibits behavior..." You need to explain that to me. How in the world does a rock exhibit bahavior? What do you mean by that?
