Talk:Mountain Glenn/@comment-114.108.203.203-20150620125045/@comment-24891101-20150620221237

I generally consider it an emergent property of consciousness. How real it is in a physical sense rests entirely on what the Grimm are and how metaphysical they want the story to be. That would govern the extent to which the soul is differentiable from consciousness. It does seem a bit inconsistent, I'll grant. On the one hand, we have what I'd like to believe is a lab-created soul, and on the other, we have the monster which violate thermodynamics and are attracted to negative emotions, and warriors who fight them using their souls, complete with significant religious trappings (Pyrrha's speech). The reality would likely lie somewhere between, and I haven't fully made up my mind on how to reconcile them. I see something of Ungoliant in the Grimm, if that helps to clarify.