So in other words, it's purely an argument from dogma rather than being able to defend it logically.
No, it isn't an argument purely from dogma. It's just Christians have the advantage of being able to sum it up in a very short sentence.
You want logic from philosophy? Look elsewhere.
Logic is
literally an outflowing of Philosophy.
Yes, there's a bunch of people out there who abuse philosophy to spew BS, but that does not change the fact that the laws of logic are
philosophical statements.
As a christian: you're speaking bullshit. Angels lack souls and yet are self aware to an extent.
Look back at my original statement. It was about AI coming to have self-awareness like humans do. Angels are completely tangential to the matter at hand, and are a different order of being that we know so little about it's useless to try to make definitive statements about the fine details of their volition and cognitive capacity.
Speaking more generally, the failure of secular scientists to explain how the mind functions as a thing distinct from the brain, to justify how free will can exist, which is a necessary conception for the moral and legal systems of a healthy society, and so many other things central to the human condition, is one of the greater proofs of how atheism is dogmatic nonsense, which leads societies down dangerous roads.
The concept of 'self-awareness,' 'sapience,' or 'a soul' as argued by philosophers and theologians is, at its most fundamental level, devolved to a simple question:
Are we purely mechanistic beings, or not?
If yes, then self-awareness et al are just illusions, free will does not exist, and we are purely biomechanical computers, sensory input processed through electrochemical neural processes will always result in a deterministic output.
If no, then such a thing as a soul may exist, and everyone not dogmatically committed to hardline materialism then engages in the great discussion of what a soul is, what it means to have one, etc, etc.
To put things in terms of the laws of logic, by the law of non-contradiction, either a soul exists or it doesn't. Free will exists or it doesn't.
If a purely mechanistic universe traps us in determinism, then not only is free will an illusion, but this very discussion about it is a sick parody of self-awareness, purely the result of material determinism with no more or less meaning than a stink bug taking a shit.
Only people with a fanatical commitment to materialistic atheism, or blinded by the facade of rational respectability atheists have draped themselves with, will deny the utter absurdity of such a thing.
