Science of the soul

[Anders]

The soul as described here is our unique, individual and eternal self. With that definition of what the soul is a hypothesis can be made about reality as information. That's an incomplete picture though since bits of information cannot exist by themselves. There must be something that holds the bits of information together within the one and same reality.

And each bit of information is connected to all other bits of information since there is no truly isolated system in existence. If a system was completely isolated from the rest of existence it wouldn't be a part of that same existence. So everything is fully interconnected. A useful illustration of this is the ancient metaphor of Indra's net:

"Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls, Sanskrit Indrajāla) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of Śūnyatā (emptiness),[1] pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination),[2] and interpenetration[3] in Buddhist philosophy."



"Indra's net has a multifaceted jewel at each vertex, and each jewel is reflected in all of the other jewels.[4] In the Avatamsaka Sutra, the image of "Indra's net" is used to describe the interconnectedness of the universe" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra's_net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Each unique soul is then one of those jewels in Indra's net. Or to make it more scientific-sounding: A soul is a single point within a universal configuration space.