Because should Ellison inform John Henry that machines do not have souls, how will John Henry react?

I hope he would slap Ellison upside the head (gently) and proceed to explain why Ellison cannot know this.

Watching this show through the prism of current debates in cognitive neuroscience and AI adds an extra level of thinkiness--not that it was needed. They can take it as slow as they want, as long as there is this kind of payoff.