"Androids do not have souls (unlike Vulcans and their katras) so the memories are just files without the positronic net".......
i'm not sure i agree... Mulling it over... but i think i'm thinking that an AI can become more than the sum of his/her parts... and maybe what emerges beyond the sum
is the ineffable soul?
whether the 'machine' is of biological origin or not... when 'memories', 'data files', whatever~ have outlived their host, there's a possibility that they can be uploaded to another vessel/body: android, hologram, ceylon, cyborg, Human 2.0, clone, hard drive.....
i wonder if the vessel might contribute to the soul itself? it might then become a trill/symbiant thing... host & soul?
just thinkin'...