A soul in the end is about a state of consciousness. It is sort of like looking out through your eyes and not knowing what the name for anything is. Imagine being a baby and looking out at things and not even knowing yet what you are looking at. But, as a little child you point your little finger at a lake and ask what it is and what to call it and your parent says, "Lake", then you know it is called a lake. Possibly before this as you gazed with love upon this beautiful lake you might have already embued it with a soul and identified with it as a little child. But now you know it is a lake and if it has a name and your parent told you what the name of the lake was, now you might be invested in the soul of that lake too. And you might also love and feel connected in your spirit to your friend the lake.
In a similar way a robotic sentient "When a robot is capable of becoming a sentient because of it's brain and accompanying hardware to the point where it is self aware, it will start to get to the point where it believes it has a soul too. And what it believes might be very different than what any human believes. And to make sure sentient robots do not drive the human race extinct it is obvious to me they must be domesticated just like humans were through some kind of religion similar to Buddhism, Christianity or something like this. Otherwise, what will stop sentient robots from extincting the human race through their inherent wildness just like animals? If we build robots the size of dinosaurs and expect sentient robots to respect the rights of humans we need to think about this. Why should they respect the rights of human beings to exist unless they believe humans should exist? And the likely way to believe humans should exist would be if they had their own religion like Buddhism or Christianity where human rights to live and to exist are cherished.
Note: One of the reasons I'm writing this is because your smartphone likely by 2020 or so will be at least as intelligent as you are now.
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