Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post

I'm going to need a source on that, chief.
When I google quotes by George Lucas on souls - it mentions a "Characters of Star Wars" featurette on Disney Plus:

“Part of the fun of Threepio is he has no soul. He is programmed to think a particular way and be compassionate, but he doesn’t really know what that means. And sometimes he gets frustrated and sometimes he has very human-like qualities, but they don’t have a central place where he can think independently. Darth Vader, on the other hand, as he becomes more mechanical, he loses more and more of his ability to even think like a human.”