Soul and consciousness are the same thing. The terms may differ but the phenomenon is the same. The terms emerged from religious and secular communities respectively.
I came to a a similar idea when I was a teenager in a bible class. I thought when we die, our soul "knows" the difference between right and wrong and suffers either heaven or hell. I don't think it occured to me that "hell" might be proportional to the amount of "wrong" you perpetrated. (Purgatory anyone?)
I came to a a similar idea when I was a teenager in a bible class. I thought when we die, our soul "knows" the difference between right and wrong and suffers either heaven or hell. I don't think it occured to me that "hell" might be proportional to the amount of "wrong" you perpetrated. (Purgatory anyone?)