I can try. The human existence is a trinity of body, mind, and soul. Mind and body alone without soul withers away, like I see so many people withering away in this age of soullessness. Soul is the mission, the purpose, the reason, the will, the driving force that makes life more than a coincidence. There is a spirit world parallel to ours, and the soul is the component of your being that most intimately interacts with it. You can train it, like a muscle, or you can let it atrophy and pretend it doesn't exist and that you don't need it.

This muscle however is vital in regulating your spiritual microbiome. Without it, evil spirits take control of your being and lure you into self-destruction, their ultimate goal. Artificial consciousness is one of these self-destructive pitfalls. You think you're a superior being and immortality is right around the corner if only you could find the one magical configuration of silicon that would allow you to upload your mind into a computer.

That's the endgame for soullessness. Consciousness that doesn't require soul must surely be transferrable to a machine.

That which animates a living organism. We know the external appearance only. What internal mechanisms may be are yet unknown or undefined.

Some say that an organism is an antenna for a kind of interference pattern in a universal field of consciousness.

We also hear tales of individual souls spanning multiple lifetimes.

I consider this a blackbox.