Tuesday classes

For History of Philosophy II the quiz question today concerned the dilemma associated with people with a non-modern point of view entering into Europe and coming into conflict with people who have a modern point of view (i.e. Post-Descartes). How do you think Chancellor Merkel should handle the situation of having non-modern people (1 million) suddenly added to Germany in one year? For Introduction to Philosophy today we began discussing the nature of the Soul and I referred to Stuart Hameroff who thinks consciousness is found in the microtubules in our neurons and means we have a quantum computer instead of a Turing machine as the seat of our soul. But my question to you is what do you think the soul is? Do you have one? Or like Steven Pinker do you think it is a side effect of brain activity?