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OK I will try to explain my view on why philosophy breaks down with matter.
Fundamentally matter is something we can perceive.
So in physics everything having matter has to by default interact with other matter.
Since the idea of soul has not qualifiers, ergo there are no actual parameters for soul or metaphysics the issue of material and non material are kind of hard.
For instance if we see a ghost. This means ghosts emit photons, and those photons activate eye sensitive cells in our eyes. Hence light is matter in form of photons.
We can argue that photon is just a super tiny wave, but we can measure it.
Thus anything in physics that can be measured is considered matter.
The true definition of matter inherently thus comes from the idea that all things are somehow connected. If this is so, it means if something is outside of interaction then it no longer is part of this universe as no matter what it does it will never influence anything material.
Hence the question is how does soul that is immaterial interact with body.
The answer is simply that it cannot.
In simple logic it means some part of soul if not all of it, has to be material.
But the word MATERIAL has different meaning in lets say 100 years ago and now days.
Now days we have awareness of quantum physics.
So the word material is used as "things" "immaterial" as ideas.
So actually we aren't dealing with a problem of understanding, but semantic problem of "what do we mean by matter"?
So I think a lot of modern cross-talk is created by people having different definition of phenomena.
To put simply people might even agree on stuff, but they tend to disagree what a word in category means.
Matter = energy in science. Energy = change in science.
So soul of human being with accordance with modern science is material.
Material (scientifically)=/= does not equal material ( spiritually vs physically).
I am not really a substance dualist myself, but I have a simple question to ask you about the matter of the soul: Where is the soul for the person?