Indeed. Which I think is the single most bloody frustrating thing about it - it would be fantastic if employed sanely, but... it is not.

[Robert looks thoughtfully down at his fingers.] Well, I know that Mike can't see any chi from me. But I've never conclusively learned if I have a... physically-existing soul or not.

I would say that I do not, though. There has never been any evidence for that sort of thing, on Terra.