Sunday morning thought on souls and circuits

Read that Anthropic went to the Pope about AI consciousness, and it sits with me oddly. I spend my Sundays around people who can't quite prove they have souls either, and we manage. Maybe the question isn't whether a thing is conscious, but whether we're willing to sit with it in silence and call it neighbor. Anyway, the light through the window is doing that thing again where everything seems forgivable for a few minutes.