Humans are becoming collective entities in language, thoughts, behaviours, and aspirations. A soul is not - and can not be - a collective entity. The soul is 'a metaphysical entity' that accompanies an individual much like his or her shadow. Therefore soul does not, and can not, exist beyond the entity of the individual.
So can a network of binary [0101] nodes and connections produce a soul-filled bot? I am not sure. Perhaps a better question to ask is "can a soul-filled bot survive within an environment delineated by uniformity, homogeneity, and sameness?".
Putting that another way. Can you imagine Amazon hiring an AI bot that possess, and acts upon, its own 'free will'? If a such global employer will not hire a 'free will' bot then surely this type of entity can not survive.
Perhaps? Humans and bots can only truly co-exist in a prolonged version of our soulless world.
Richard
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