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Non-religious sort here. But the closest I can get to describing a soul is to call it data. It is the accumulation of your physical experiences and exposures here on earth. Memories, feelings, impulses, sensory coding. How you feel when someone brushes your arm. All of that was learned through a homosapiens genetic/phenotypic bias. By that I mean a mouse might interpret our world differently.

I think it is clear that a large part of that data is maintained internally (electrochemically) and lost when the body dies. The immortal part, as silly as it sounds, comes from the continuity of our species. Parts of you live on in other peoples minds for a time. You've heard of the phrase "rent free, 24/7." That little piece of you is inside someone's head, laughing when they see something you would've found funny, resurfacing occasionally to remind them of something you would've said. The immortal aspect diminishes/dilutes over time, but who knows, maybe a great great grand child smirking at some random thought is that little surviving piece of you.

My $0.02