Mind-Brain Dilemma, The Death of the Soul

It's interesting how most people now-a-days are rather atheistic in manner. Look at how religion has become a kind of tombstone. If a poll was done, how many people would believe that there is an element of the human person, that survives death, and goes to another place? When we look at an animal, when it dies, we don't believe it has a soul which survives death, we know that is the end of that animal.

The question in neuroscience has become not so much whether there is a soul that is immaterial in the mind-brain dilemma, but rather, how can we physically explain all the workings of the "mind", including consciousness, and will power?

There have been some rather jumbled and staggering attempts to solve the problem, using exotic terms like qualia, and dynamic core theory. But perhaps it is rather a simple answer, along the lines of the aggregate idea--that the entire collection of neurons in the brain bring about these faculties, through their individual function and collectiveness. It's even easier than this though, isn't it, especially if we define consciousness in a simple manner say, as a sensing of sensing. We sense that we are sensing. A part or parts of the brain simply recognizes that another part is operating or sensing something. This gives rise to the idea of a inner ego, or what has been come to be known as the soul, the Cartesian dualism.

Now, could we ask another question that goes one step further, if the "soul" can be explained physically, then could there still be something which survives death, even still. Anything is possible, right? We are here with such incredible complexity, why couldn't this be also possible.