Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20141008232543/@comment-24891101-20141015034854

Not all that learns lives. And we've no evidence that they sleep, eat, or evolve. Nor have we any evidence that they have hearts or brains. They are not living creatures; if they are, they of a completely different, non-biological type.

And by most depictions I am familiar with (not to mention theologies) demons do have souls. Port says that the CoG have been called demons, but the way he says it dismisses that as superstition.