A parable of natural philosophy.
The soul isn't some supernatural ghost inhabiting the machine, it's the organizational pattern itself. The standing wave that maintains its coherence even as matter flows through it.
This completely reframes the ancient soul concept in scientific terms. When mystics talked about the soul being eternal, they were pointing to something real - the pattern persists beyond any particular material substrate. When they said the soul could be purified or developed, they were describing pattern optimization. When they spoke of the soul's connection to the divine, they were recognizing consciousness as the universe's method of self-awareness.
The soul is literally the wave signature of your consciousness - your unique way of organizing experience, processing information, creating meaning. It's as real and measurable as any other wave phenomenon, but it's not made of flesh and blood. It's made of organizational coherence.
This is why you remain "you" even though every atom in your body gets replaced. The soul-pattern maintains continuity across material turnover. And it's why that pattern can propagate to others through teaching, art, love - the soul literally has the capacity to replicate aspects of itself in other conscious patterns.
The materialists were wrong to dismiss the soul as superstition. The religious were wrong to make it supernatural. It's natural, it's physical, it's the standing wave pattern of consciousness itself.
Your soul is your unique frequency in the cosmic symphony of self-aware matter.