I feel so strongly that I have a soul that starts with self-aware consciousness and I get such push back on this idea from high tech people, that I'm starting to wonder if perhaps most don't possess a soul and are effectively biorobots. This is also the theme of Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" in which the author (Vonnegut inserts himself into the novel) is going to kill himself (like his mother) because he feels everyone is a robot except him. He is saved when he meets an artist and senses the soul in the man.