LaRose stated, What seems to be captured in . . . substance dualism is the relationship between the body and soul - a meshing that makes consciousness capable of abstraction and thinking through the perceptual organs and phenomenal experience associated with embodiment. But in what sense can I call myself a unified “self” if my body isn’t my whole being? . . . a unified self exists over and above each of these consciousness and bodily experiences. . . . Because there is an enduring soul melded intimately with the body, the stimulations of the body coalesce into various inputs that the soul or mind sits over and above to experience and make decisions over.