Whatever the human soul may be--informing spirit, identity, personality, consciousness--that intangible thing Michael certainly possessed.

His soul, differing only in degree, partook of the same attributes as the human soul.

He knew love, sorrow, joy, wrath, pride, self-consciousness, humour.

Three cardinal attributes of the human soul are memory, will, and understanding; and memory, will, and understanding were Michael's.
Just like a human, with his five senses he contacted with the world exterior to him.

Just like a human, the results to him of these contacts were sensations.