Dr. J. P. Moreland composed an article for the ministry Reasons To Believe (www.reasons.org) addressing the immateriality of the human soul. It was entitled “Body and Soul Part 2: Why the Soul Is Immaterial.” I will post several excerpts from his informative article which provides support for dualist interaction between the immaterial human spirit and soul (and the Holy Spirit) and the material synaptic networks of the human brain. He begins his article with the following:
“. . . a human being’s soul or self . . . is immaterial (or non-material).” Moreland states that the soul is a substance. “Substances are basic fundamental things. They are not in other things or aspects of other things. . . . Substance dualists assert that as a human, [a person] consists of an immaterial substantial soul with a physical body that is not identical to the soul. . . . substance dualists believe that the brain is a physical thing with physical properties and the mind or soul is a mental substance that has mental properties. . . . a human being’s self or ego [is] an immaterial substance that bears consciousness.”