1 Brother, also a maker of sewing machines sells PE_Design Basic (formerly 'PED Basic Embroidery Software', for simple downloading/editing) and PE-Design light (digitizing, letters, combining, etc. about 300 â¬).
They define spirit and soul as breath, blood, energy, life force etc. Spirit is to the body, what electricity is to a light bulb, gas to a car, electrons to a computer. When the power is turned off, the computer ceases to operate or dies and is no more alive than a stone.
A number of Stoic arguments for the claim that the soul is a body have come down to us (see Annas 1992, 39-41). The best one of these is that the soul is a body because (roughly) only bodies affect one another, and soul and body do affect one another, for instance in cases of bodily damage and emotion.