Adey, If you equate soul with consciousness, how would you explain a comatose or an unconscious person's consciousness? The soul makes him tick inside but the person has no consciousness or awareness.

To me soul is not exactly consciousness. I could say soul is just a state of existence..living or dead, or the inertia of being in rest or in motion. But then, how would people explain the state of existence of a virus which is considered neither living nor dead?