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.
I’ll put aside the question of a soul and say, the brain is explicitly something our consciousness makes up (based on data so consistent we justifiably call it “reality”).
Materialism is how we see the world. Our consciousness gives a better clue to what the world really is. My consciousness is what it’s like to actually be this part of the world.