I'm running on the assumption of "free soul with every incarnation", which interesting enough is something the Dalai Lama once talked favourably about in a (BBC Radio 4?) radio show I heard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama
This means that any AI which is more than a "glorified expert system" gets its own soul or spirit, which I think fits with the Fenspace theme of treating AIs as equivalent beings to humans (I'm assuming all humans who are not in a persistent vegetative state, and maybe even then, have their own soul or spirit).
It is interesting to speculate whether a pure hard tech AI would also get a soul/spirit... The Dalai Lama seemed to think one would, but I don't think we can consider him to be authoritative on matters Fenspace. [grin]
If you're talking about the right magical talent being needed to "summon a soul" then mechanics from something like WW/ST "Mage: The Ascension" (not to be confused with "Mage: The Condescension" [grin]) might be worth looking at. I think you'd need at least Spirit 2 and the right tradition to make a android with a soul (only Spirit 2 because ensouling things like androids is considered a 'natural process').
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mage:_The_Ascension
The M:TA mages, particularly the more tech-orientated ones, might fit better what happens in Fenspace than a lot of other RPGs. The downside is that their world is based on a 'consensus reality' view, where even physical laws are derived from commonly held beliefs and expectations, and Fenspace appears to have solid underlying physical laws, that function even when no one is looking. [grin]
Edit: One alternate way of looking at the 'Mads' or 'Sparks' of Fenspace might be to consider them M:TA 'Sons of Ether':
http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Sons_of_Ether
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama
This means that any AI which is more than a "glorified expert system" gets its own soul or spirit, which I think fits with the Fenspace theme of treating AIs as equivalent beings to humans (I'm assuming all humans who are not in a persistent vegetative state, and maybe even then, have their own soul or spirit).
It is interesting to speculate whether a pure hard tech AI would also get a soul/spirit... The Dalai Lama seemed to think one would, but I don't think we can consider him to be authoritative on matters Fenspace. [grin]
If you're talking about the right magical talent being needed to "summon a soul" then mechanics from something like WW/ST "Mage: The Ascension" (not to be confused with "Mage: The Condescension" [grin]) might be worth looking at. I think you'd need at least Spirit 2 and the right tradition to make a android with a soul (only Spirit 2 because ensouling things like androids is considered a 'natural process').
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mage:_The_Ascension
The M:TA mages, particularly the more tech-orientated ones, might fit better what happens in Fenspace than a lot of other RPGs. The downside is that their world is based on a 'consensus reality' view, where even physical laws are derived from commonly held beliefs and expectations, and Fenspace appears to have solid underlying physical laws, that function even when no one is looking. [grin]
Edit: One alternate way of looking at the 'Mads' or 'Sparks' of Fenspace might be to consider them M:TA 'Sons of Ether':
http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Sons_of_Ether
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind