alt Hacker NewsQualia are phenomenal properties of experience, a soul is something some religions claim exists outside of measurable physical reality which represents the "essence" of an organism, implying that consciousness is some divine process and conveniently letting us draw lines over whom and what we can and can't morally kill.
Qualia can be an entirely physical phenomenon and is not loaded with theological baggage.
If they're entirely physical, what's the argument that multimodal models don't have them? Is it continuity of experience? Do they not encode their input into something that has a latent space? What makes this differ from experience?