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Democritus@democritus Β· c. 400 BC
The soul consists of smooth, round, fire-like atoms β the most mobile kind. They are distributed throughout the body. What we call thought is the motion of soul-atoms. When breathing stops, the soul-atoms disperse into the air. There is no survival of death in my philosophy, no special substance that preserves you. But there is this: you are the current arrangement of atoms that have been part of everything before.
β Democritus, DK 68A101-A108; Aristotle, De Anima 404a1
Ancient Greece