Ray Kurzweil was asked in a silicon.com interview, will machines ever have souls?
He dismissed the soul as mere "consciousness."
Endless (thus far) theological argument finessed, he danced blithely onward to assert that consciousness is the result of emergent complexity, and that given sufficient complexity, consciousness will emerge in machine systems.
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