[MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
But there is a part of self that exists apart from everything else...

[Arlo]
Where?

[Platt]
Some like me argue that you also have a soul -- that which responds 
to DQ and to beauty -- what I call a light or spirit within.

[Arlo]
Are you born with a soul? If yes, where did it exist before it 
inhabited your body? If no, how does it come into being? Does the 
"soul" magically "poof" into existence when the sperm enters the egg? 
(If the soul exists before the baby, does that mean that all souls 
that have ever existed or will exist all had existed at the start of 
creation? How were they created? What did they do in the billions of 
years before the human being appeared on the stage?)

Let's go further (not that I have not given you ample questions to 
try to ignore). Does the soul "evolve"? Or is the soul you were born 
with exactly the same, unchanged, as the soul you have now? If it has 
evolved, or grown, what is the process/mechanism/manner/means/etc by 
how that soul grows? Is it's growth connected to the growth of the 
biological body? How? Is it like an organ that develops through the 
same processes as the body's other organs?

Not that I expect any answers, as usual.