What is a soul? Is it something that can be detected scientifically? Is the soul something you have, or does your soul have a body? Are you your soul and not the body? What I’m about to say may raise even more questions as well as blow out our current knowledge about the soul.

First, there is a physical version of the soul that is detectable. There may be much more to the soul, but we are right on the forefront of learning about this, right here and now. The physical part of the soul is the mechanism by which the expression of our genes are switched on and off. The epigenome. We are just starting to figure out how this cloud of methyl molecules works as a control center for gene expression. But where does the cloud get its signals from? Ready for the next step?