One important thing to note here is there is a tendency (inertia?) to find deterministic explanations to observed phenomena. That's mainly because in order to have science, objective science, we need phenomena to be reproducible in a controlled environment.
However, psychology (generalize it as much as you will), hardly allows such approach. The psyche is capable of intentional behavior, which by its nature, is not deterministic. Thus you can not make predictions. Thus you can not falsify statements about it in the same way one does with statements in physics.
That's why many find the idea of soul (a imaterial substance responsible for our psychological features) repulsive. But this is only because they put forward, as an axiom, the need and the ability to make science with everything and anything. Including with my writing this comment.
However, psychology (generalize it as much as you will), hardly allows such approach. The psyche is capable of intentional behavior, which by its nature, is not deterministic. Thus you can not make predictions. Thus you can not falsify statements about it in the same way one does with statements in physics.
That's why many find the idea of soul (a imaterial substance responsible for our psychological features) repulsive. But this is only because they put forward, as an axiom, the need and the ability to make science with everything and anything. Including with my writing this comment.