If there is a soul, it would be the pattern of information that represents all your thoughts and memories. Information itself is your soul. This is how we rank civilizations. Is how we rank sub atomic particles. We look at its energy and we look at its information content. That's how we categorize everything, including humans. And with the copernican principle, we're not special, so it's not likely we're the first. Half of em are behind us, half of em are ahead of us. Let's use that estimate. If they're ahead of us, they're not going to be ten years ahead of us or a hundred years ahead of us. Tere going