Explain the difference between the body and the self

Body & Soul

Bodies are temporary and made of matter. “Soul” refers to the self/person/spirit within the body. Bodies come in many varieties sizes, shapes, colors, species—but spiritually all beings are equal. The soul/self/person inside is what makes any body go.

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Body & Soul
A Phenomenological Approach
What’s It Like to Be a Neuron?
What is the difference between self and body?
What is the relation between body and self?
What is the difference between self and self?
What is the difference between the body and the soul?

Souls are permanent and made of spirit. A body without a soul is called “dead.” Souls can live on their own, without bodies. Only in this world do we see souls stuck inside bodies. Spiritual beings are meant to live in a spiritual rather than a material world.

What’s the difference between spirit and matter?
Spirit and matter are two seemingly incompatible things which, when combined, make up “the world as we know it.”
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Important questions in life
Whatever the questions of life are, which are enduring, which are absolute type of questions, when they are answered, then our doubts, our misgivings, our fears, our ignorance, is dissipated. Those are the type of questions, which are considered most important.
Now whether it is going to rain tomorrow or not? This sort of a question may be there in many of our minds after so many days of rain, but this is something, which is not like an eternal problem. Eventually it is going to stop raining and the sun is going to come up.
But question like, "Who are we? Where have we come from? Where are we going to after this life is over? What is this world? What is life? Is there a creator? Is there an origin to life? Is there an ultimate or absolute truth? Is there transmigration of the soul? etc.etc... so many questions for which if we had the answers, we would solve so many problems. These are considered spiritual questions that invoke transcendental knowledge when we get the answer.
So in the Bhagavad Gita we find that there are a series of questions and answers. Like Arjuna asked different questions, and Krsna gives the answers. His basic question was that he was suffering and that he was in anxiety; and he wanted to know how to get out of it? There are some other questions too.

A Phenomenological Approach

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What’s It Like to Be a Neuron?

There is a experiential difference between the sense of touching your own cheek and the slow and soft caress of a lover which sets off a wildfire of neuronal activity despite being almost the same physical inputs.

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What is the difference between self and body?

The needs of the body are physical in nature, whereas the needs of the self ('I') are not physical in nature - like trust, respect, happiness etc. 1.

What is the relation between body and self?

The simplest way to analyze the relationship between the body and the self is to look at changes in both and attempt to draw connections. If the body and self are connected, than a significant change to body should be observable as a corresponding change to the self.

What is the difference between self and self?

When used with a capital S, Self refers to the type that conform to the protocol, e.g. String or Int . When used with a lowercase S, self refers to the value inside that type, e.g. “hello” or 556. Remember, Self with a capital S refers to whatever type is conforming to the protocol.

What is the difference between the body and the soul?

Soul is the principle of life; form of a living body as living. Aristotle defines soul as the actuality of a natural body having life potentially within in. The soul is the principle/form of a living body as living. The soul is not separable from the body.