oh i know, i figured that these are two wildly different classifications of AI. i just thought it was neat to think about, is all.
And the fact of the matter is, I don't even know what a "soul" is as a concept, or what it's supposed to mean. So I wouldn't think of the AI in this story as "Soulless", partially because they clearly experience things on a very similar level to humans, and partially because I don't know what the heck "soulless" is supposed to mean.