[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_self]What are we?[/url] Are we a collection of compounds and molecules? Are we a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul]soul[/url]? Historically, there have been a multitude of ways people have defined the self. If we are not a soul, then what are we? Are we simply our body? Our we our actions? A collection of memories? If we are a soul, what is the soul? Is it separate from the body or dependent on it? Plato believed the soul to be the mind, an incorporeal object that lives on after the death of the body. According to Aristotle the soul not is a object, but an activity of the body. The soul of an ax is cutting, as that is what an ax does. Some say that the soul is not a physical aspect from the body, but dwells within it. Another school of thought believes that the soul and body live on entirely different levels of existence, unconnected, but experience the same stimulation. What do you think we are? Are we our body, a soul, or something else entirely? Tell us what you think and why you think it.