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What you describe in your post #644 appears to have spatial and temporal extent and to be corporeal, insofar as it dwells within, and animates, spatiotemporal living entities. So I don't find that your description of soul as "non-corporeal, non-spatial, non-temporal" comports with your last, more detailed account. Am I misunderstanding you?

Evidently. Shall we try again? Perhaps this time distinguishing wherein the willfulness exists from the space/time coordinate point at which the cascade of information (successful communication) to actualize the will actually, physically ensues?

Thank you for your reply!

...distinguishing wherein the willfulness exists from the space/time coordinate point at which the cascade of information (successful communication) to actualize the will actually, physically ensues.

I'm sorry, I must've missed some of the things you've said in other posts. I went back and re-read your posts #518 and #582, but I don't find therein an explanation of how one soul could be distinguished from another if souls were neither corporeal nor spatial nor temporal. What I'm seeking is an account of a principle of individuation of souls that in no way refers to or depends upon space, time or matter/energy. Is there such a principle, in your view?

(BTW, have you been influenced by Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung)? By Henrí Bergson? By Teilhard de Chardin? Just curious.)