Quote Originally Posted by Tiki Snakes View Post
The warp is not just some emotional energy field. It's a fundamental metaphysical layer of reality and inherantly part of pretty much all life. Even the Tau, who were almost certainly engineered to have as little to do with it as possible, have small souls. Even the Orks who do not have souls technically have kind of souls.
Emotion usually has to do with the warp, but the warp is not emotion.
I wasn't saying it was. Simply that, since the warp is a fundamental metaphysical layer of reality in that galaxy, perhaps it is inherently part of pretty much all life because live evolved alongside it, forming what the Culture would classify as symbiotic relationships with the warp lifeforms known as souls. Basically, 40k people could need their souls in a way that Culture citizens don't, despite both having souls, because 40k folks evolved alongside souls, while Culture citizens just got them upon wandering in.