A soul who has a body [sic!], which I have to work on again after delicious Christmas dinner. But after claiming my sixpack again for me myself and I, it will probably change around. Why does your interesting thoughts and the distinction of sentience and reason sound so sectarian to me? Are philosophers generally a kind of sect?
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Elaborate more -- what do you mean by sectarian?
Yes, I have to open up the scope of my answer a little more. My backround is rooted in Logical Empiricism and it was quite usual to hand metaphysical questions over to music or artistic professions. Yes, I know that metaphysics is an important branch in philosophy and it led me to my second thought whether our tendency to specialize within academia can cultivate kind of "sects", a closed group of people where it's quite difficult to left the hard earned mindset which was constructed in the first place.
Sure, concepts get trapped in eddies, where they do no one any good and die a lonely death. Liberating these concepts so they can go out and procreate is the benefit of generalists, no ;-)
No reason to "hand" anything over to anyone. If you can't explain something in words that someone outside of your discipline can understand, than I would argue that perhaps you don't understand it as well as you think you do ;-)