This question is energetically tackled in the first section, from the ancient Egyptians' "sophisticated model of a five-part soul attached to an earthly body" to Kandinsky and Alan Turing.
Alphonse is a child who lost his body during an alchemical experiment to bring his deceased mother back to life, and had his soul attached to a suit of armor by his brother, Edward Elric.
Prior to 1695, Malebranche explained how intelligible extension is so rendered by appealing somewhat obscurely to the fact that the soul "attaches" colors to a non-sensory idea.
The traditional view was that God had created individual human souls and attached them to bodies, and that the individual persons thus created would receive their reward or punishment after their death in a "world to come".
The view that the soul is attached to the whole body is already found in St Augustine's works: "in each body the whole soul is in the whole body, and whole in each part of it" (On the Trinity, book 6, ch. 6).
When I saw "Koyaanisqatsi" in college, I dismissed it as a trippy, slick, MTV-ish thing, to which some well-meaning soul had attached hippie messages about the mechanization of existence and the spoliation of the planet.
Apparently their souls were not attached in any way to their wallets, because at the end of the week the bus boys would compare tips and I always did the worst.
He was, however, clear that the human person (even when the person in question was Christ in human form) was not merely a soul with an attached body, but was the body informed by the soul: if your soul alone were to survive death you would not.
A: My answer would be, "What kind of demented soul would attach a human being's life to such a trivial question?" And, "I refuse to play such a twisted game".
It was a good thing they hadn't called in Doctor Spengler, that romantic soul who became attached to his patients and mourned for them.
