Soul Advantage

The Soul Advantage is the capacity to care about something enough that being wrong about it costs you something real. A machine can produce the language of concern, regret or conviction. It does not sit in the wreckage when the decision goes badly. A person chooses, carries the consequence and can decide to repair what happened: agency, with the invoice attached. The advantage is not proof that humans are wiser, kinder or more tasteful; we have supplied ample evidence to the contrary. It is that a human can be responsible, and trust, judgement, taste and courage grow from that fact. The privilege is not merely that we get to choose. It is that the choice stays ours after the applause has stopped.