Distinguishing the vital body from the physical body

I am currently reading "Physics of the soul" by Dr. Amit Goswami. In the chapter I am reading he mentioned something I felt worth sharing. In trying to give his readers a good grasp on what the vital body was and how it is separate, yet still connected to the physical body, he used the example of how newtonian laws can be used to understand the movement of the planets and other non-living objects but not the vital body.

For example if we wanted to know what Jupiter's location will be in reference to earth in 10 years we can use mathematics and newtonian science to figure it out. Now, what about where YOU will be in 10 years? Amit points out that, where you will be is, amongst other things, dependent on your thoughts and feelings. A thought or feeling cannot be measured by mathematics or newtonian science. A thought or feeling is essentially like a program for which the physical body follows. From here he equates that, because of this fact we can see the connection between how the physical body is governed by the vital body. He also discusses the possibility of us having a "mental" and "supramental" body. All together these various bodies can fall under the general category of "subtle body".

Many term's have been used to describe the subtle body. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake uses the term "morphogenic field" to describe the field to which the physical body organizes itself to. I for one agree with Amit and Rupert regarding the existence of these type of fields. The only reason the general scientific community isn't in full agreement regarding these fields is that there is no hard science to prove their existence, only logical deduction and theories. This is one thing I feel as though will change, hopefully within the next decade.