I often wonder about “uploading” our minds into a computer or robot, would our soul follow? Same with the transporter idea from “Star Trek” as well. I guess one plausible way to explain it and I could be wrong, but I think it COULD work this way. The soul is tied to the mind, some New Agers call it “The Silver Cord” if you will. Maybe where the mind goes, the soul follows until it is “time to go” via circumstances or “it is just our time to go.” I really am not sure on that one so I would not want to test this theory out, it is just an idea.
I think our soul, our essence, the “breath of God” is separate. Our brain is a tool, an instrument, a structure we use in this existence. Who knows what we will be capable of in the next? Or, what form it will take?