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Out-of-Body Experiences as the Origin of the Concept of a "Soul"

Contemporaryphilosophical and scientific discussions of mind developed from a “proto-concept of mind”, a mythical, traditionalistic, animistic and quasi-sensorytheoryabout what it means to have a mind. It can be found in manydifferent cultures and has a semantic core corresponding to the folk-phenomenological notion of a “soul”. It will be argued that this notion originates in accurate and truthful first-person reports about the experiential content of a specific neurophenomenological state-class called “out-of-body experiences”. Theycan be undergone byeveryhuman being and seem to possess a culturallyinvariant cluster of functional and phenomenal core properties similar to the proto-concept of mind. The common causal factor in the emergence and development of the notion of the soul and the proto-concept of mind mayconsist in a yet to be determined set of properties realized by the human brain, underlying the cluster of phenomenal properties described in the relevant first-person reports. This hypothesis suggests that such a neurofunctional substrate led human beings at different times, and in widelyvary ing cultural contexts, to postulate the existence of a soul and to begin developing a theoryof mind.