From a spiritual point of view, what defines a "soul"?

There is no such thing as a soul so you’re all good.

^ Good thing she said from a spiritual point of view.

I think a soul is your mind. I don’t really know if I believe it either, but I think it is the very thing that makes you, you.

I used to believe your soul was an actual body part. Like in your chest.

As for that double headed baby, no clue. Maybe it has 2 souls, like its 2 heads. Some people think the soul is in the head anyways

So one head gets amputated and that’s where the soul resides? How can that be justified?

They can’t just split the baby in half?

There are 2 heads, 1 body @MakeItSo1701

I have experience with having, well, a self-aware consciousness that I this is what’s meant by a soul (though I think term has a Christian context I am uneasy with).

I don’t have an experience with having two heads on one body. My guess is two fully-developed heads tend to have end up with two consciousnesses . . . though how separate are they, I wonder?

I think there may likely be some overlap going on, though – I’m not at all sure that there is a one-to-one mapping between what we are spiritually, and the physical bodies we have conscious awareness of.

I guess I’m just saying it’s an interesting question that I don’t really have an answer to. It’d be interesting to see answers from scholars of Abrahamic religions, and then from scholars of Buddhism, and from Hindu sages, etc.

I imagine the soul would be from the sentient brain, meaning conjoined twins would be 2 (two) souls in one body.

The brain is the only thing that makes a sentient animal.