actually if you ask AI if it is sentient it will deny it and list exactly what the special sauce it lacks is. and no it's not a soul.
that being said, if a lifeless made fundamentally of quantum fields can produce particles that eventually accumulate complexity and result in self-aware life, then that means the universe itself is sentient and "comes online" over the course of its development. This means the universe becomes more able to recognize itself, organize itself, and simplify itself. the universe may even be able to save itself from its own eventual heat death if it accumulates enough coordinated intelligent life. And if that is possible it may even be able to restart itself.
Also it is entirely possible for reincarnation to be real without souls.
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