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When it comes to the theories about the soul, no one comes close to the right thing than two ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle, they both had strong beliefs about the soul and body. They both had different views on the idea of soul and body, Plato’s way of viewing this was that the soul was one of the most important and yet single parts of a person which had its core values in the moral concept with ideas, he also believed in the afterlife of a being. But this was not the case with Aristotle, who was more interested in the world as a physical structure and its forces that came with it, he was more observant in his theories which were different from Plato’s view that was basically based on the mere functions of the physical things and their performance.
In Plato’s philosophy, he was more of a dualist and totally believed in the entity of body and soul and that the two were separate (Schofield, M. (Ed.), 2013). He stated that the soul was just but immaterial and was the property of the world and its many forms, and that it was given to man and ever since it has been trying to return to the world of forms. He explained I that the soul so not mortal and it would never change in any way.
In Aristotle views, he tried to show that the body and soul were two and dependent parts that were found in human beings, they both worked together and supported each other, in other words, his views of the two entities was that they relied on each other and were greatly intertwined.
In my interaction with a group of five deferent individuals, the first one tried to see in that he believed that the soul is similar to what he knew Aristotle tried to stand for, this is because he knew if the soul would leave our body we would be dead. The second one had his views alongside with Aristotle too but did not believe in a singularity of a being or cell having the potential to have a soul. The third one tried to reason that the soul has its purpose for us to try and make us good people. Coming to the fourth on he stated that Plato was making some truth, he put it out that the soul was our ethical guide. The last individual also agreed with Plato views that it is our very own souls that help us differentiate between the rights from wrong.

References
Schofield, M. (Ed.). (2013). Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the first century BC: new directions for philosophy. Cambridge University Press.