Originally Posted by Blackberry
... could a bicycle be said to have a soul?
Nope. Sorry. If there is any hunk of machinery that will eventually develop a soul it will be the computer. It's certainly not going to happen any time soon, but if Moore's Law continues it will eventually happen. Intelligent silicon based life crafted by the hand of man.
Of course, Pamela Anderson had some silicon crafted by the hand of man (felt up by the hand of man too I suppose!) but it wasn't intelligent. That being said, her implants were probably much smarter than she.
Edit: I should have stated felt up by the hand of
men, many many men.