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Is your soul in the "cloud"?

It isn't a product.

It is both a property and a product.

Property: an attribute, quality, or characteristic of something.
Product: a thing or person that is the result of an action or process.

A magnetic field created by electrical current is both a property and a product of the current. Consciousness is an emergent property and product of the brain.
 
Consciousness is not a "product" of the brain. Like mind, it is just a word to describe the entirety of the workings of the brain and nervous system.

The only mystery is how the brain and nervous system does what it does. What parts control what sensations.

I think at this point you two are arguing semantics.
 
Information technology may offer a useful metaphor in examining the question of life after death. If your mind and body is a "computer," perhaps your soul could be a "website" that is stored in a "cloud" outside your physical being.

Conceivably, some people have souls in the "cloud" but in other people, the soul stays in the body and perishes at death. It would be the difference between being "saved" and not being "saved." Or perhaps everyone starts with the soul in the body, but the soul only goes to the "cloud" if the person has some kind of transcendental experience. Thus, if you are preoccupied with the material world and physical pleasures, you will never reach the "cloud."

Depends on what your definition of "soul" is, in a way a part of us already "lives" in the cloud. Whenever we post online, we live digital footprints, and this could be a part of our digital souls. Imagine if that Black Mirror episode with Hayley Atwell is made possible. It will be so easy to gather our digital footprints and transfer our soul into a synthetic body. All it takes is the right technology for it.
 
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