And do believe that I, this random guy on the internet has a soul
I personally don’t believe that I anyone else has a soul. From my standup I don’t se any reason to believe that our consciousness and our so called “soul” would be any more then something our brain is making up.
It’s proof of consciousness. If you’re using “soul” synonymously to “consciousness”, well, certainly not everyone does so.
In the use of language I learned, “soul” is the superstitious concept that religious people use, and since I don’t believe in superstitions, I certainly don’t believe that I have a soul.
I definitely possess consciousness, though, in the sense that I recognize contiguous piles of atoms as “objects” and one such object is my own body.
In turn, I would not say that my consciousness asks questions and reads the responses. My body does that. My ‘mind’ and ‘consciousness’ are just characteristics of my body. And “I” is my body, too.