That's presently a big model in biology and in complexity theory. I looked at that from the point of view of quantum physics and I said there can't be consciousness without reflection. I said the reflection had to be something which could emerge in a way that we couldn't see it, in a way we couldn't be aware of it. The answer to me was time itself. So I take the soul to be that immortal construct, because it lasts as long as time does.
Time is within the soul.
They're both the same in a way. I took that to be the basic postulate of how consciousness arises in the universe. I was able to look at how the Buddha talked about consciousness. Basically, the Buddha said that consciousness can only exist with mind objects that were reflective of their consciousness. The Buddha said, basically, that consciousness is connected with the temporal sense, whereas the other five senses are connected with our spatial sense.