Just as the mind, personality, or character cannot exist as an independent conscious being apart from the body neither can the spirit, however one decides to defines it, exist as an independent conscious being outside the body. I realize no one is saying otherwise. My point is - Why try to argue that the word spirit, as it is employed in the Bible or the SOP, means anything other than a synonym for mind or heart or feeling or attitude? The spirit of man is not a faculty or function or hardware, rather it is the byproduct of such tools.