What is a human being?

[chaoticidealism]

If you want to translate the concept of the soul into non-theological terms, the soul could probably be defined as the collection of information that makes up a human being--the complexity of it that allows sentience and allows a human to think, feel, and connect to others and to the world.

Maybe a human being is what happens when a collection of information reaches critical mass and becomes complex enough to develop into something that can ask "Why?".