Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.
I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk
That last one seems unlikely just off the weight of similarity to all other life. What’s the cutoff for a thing to have a soul? Only humans? Which protohuman met that threshold? Species are a social construct after all, biology is very happy to let humans and neanderthals breed viable offspring. Do all mammals have souls? Elephants perform funerary rites, but so do some birds. Is there a neuron count or brain structure that a soul lives in? Why wouldn’t a whale have a soul with those mega huge brains?