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What is a soul

Hi guys i have a question. 

I am a 22(m) and i study chemistry. Over the past few years i have explored a couple of religions and have been really trying think about other stuff like philosophy. And a thing that comes up like almost everywhere is the soul. Socrates, jezus Buddha and allah all talk about the ‘soul’ but i can never pin down what it is precisely. I have been thinking about it for a while now, but i would like to ask people about there own definition of a soul. 
The thing i struggle with the most is that everybody always says that a everything has a soul and that the soul is energy. But the problem i have with that is if my soul is energy. And every living thing has a soul. Is my spul equal to that of a cow or a crow. And to take the budist stand point of reincarnation. When i would reincarnate is my soul equal to those of the crow and worm even tho the human is way more different then those animals. 

And the abrahamic religions say you soul goes to heaven. But everything has a soul. So is there a heaven for good crows?  Do cows have a soul that god to heaven and how would they get there? What kwalifies as a good cow soul. 

I hope we can all have a nice discussion about his topic and please do give your opinion and perspectives. It can be as religious as you want to. I just want to know how people see the soul.
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This is a nit-pick with your overall question for sure but, for clarification, the Buddha and early Buddhists were not advocates for the idea of the soul. A core teaching of the Buddha is the notion of the "non-self" which says that we shouldn't think of ourselves as containing some unchanging, indestructible, and non-material essence such as a soul.