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Empedocles in fact claimed to have been a bush in a previous incarnation, as well as, among other things, a bird and a fish fr.
Oedipus says that his soul laments the misery of his city and its inhabitants Oedipus Tyrannus 64.
But to account for such a life, it must also account for the cognitive and intellectual functions which guide and shape such a life.
Other Ancient Theories of Soul cf.
This obviously is an extremely generous view of what experience, and ultimately sense-perception, can do! So Socrates launches his most elaborate and final argument for the immortality of the soul, which concludes that since life belongs to soul essentially, the soul must be deathless — that is, immortal.