““While in yeshiva, I was once asked by a friend and frequent debater, do I believe in a soul. I answered that I believe a human being is more than the sum of his or her parts—in much the same way it would be wrong to say that Shakespeare’s poetry is mere ink on paper. Reality does not equal cold reductionism. So in answer, no, I do not think that we have a literal spark burning within the inion of our squama occipitalis. Then again, I do not think that you, dear reader, truly think this either.””
