For Aristotle, its the other way around (body functions are the product of the soul), and for me too. Only some body functions which end up to be fake or to be empty don't come from the soul, because soul is passion, and if there is no passion on what you do, then that body function comes from nowhere.
The soul is something immaterial, independent of the body and capable of surviving its death, according to Aristotle. I initially thought that the soul for Aristotle was the passion of a human being, the motor that keeps dreams alive, but I now see its something else.
For Aristotle, the soul can't work without a body, and also the other way around (well, it can work, but it would be the same as someone in a coma), because the soul has the functions of memory, breathing (well, the breathing is controlled by the brain, not the soul), nutrition, growth and emotions, and the body was only the thing that would interpret these functions and receive them from other people. In another words, Aristotle is saying that the brain is independent from from the body itself, but can't blame him for that. Technology wasn't so advanced, and they thought women are not people.
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