What is the Soul? And robots

[zenmaster]

At the physical level, or perhaps the quantum level, we are all consciousness. We, living and organic, are spirits with physical vessels.

What is matter on the other side? The spiritual side. Is the soul merely a condensed "gem" of consciousness, expounded on itself by memory, reincarnation and self-awareness? Similar to how matter in the physical realm is layer upon layer of energy fused into objects.

If you can grasp what I'm asking, I ask further, what of future robots that have been programmed with self-awareness? Certainly their material is from the same star-dust we're composed of. What makes us different but the soul?

A local body becomes self-aware after becoming inspirited. Until we understand more of time/space, which likely means having a more capable brain that can fathom the practical scope of it, we will not be able to develop suitable (robot) vehicles to host self-aware consciousnesses. After all, the consciousness that has reached a self-aware level has other options for a body.

The other side, is 'metaphysical' aka 'time/space' - not 'spiritual' any more than this side aka 'space/time' is spiritual.