Talk:Penny/@comment-25555436-20150308201601/@comment-24891101-20150308213604

Neural net. My theory is that souls are an emergent property of neural nets, and Penny is the first of sufficient complexity to generate a soul.

If we've got other bullshit soul magic going on, then that presents massive ethical difficulties. And given their reverence for the soul (an assumption, I'll admit, but a warranted one), they'd likely consider her human, if they stuck a human soul in a shell. This doesn't really achieve the purpose of the project.