Abeguy, you've got that idea of "soul in a computer" wrong. The idea was that a computer would read every part of your mind at the same time, or absorbe all the information from your mind. Then your conscience would be in the computer. It would be another copy of you (like a photocopy). Even after the origional is gone/dead, the photocopy would remain. You're conscience is still thinking from inside a computer, but you {physical you} have died.
There was a question a friend (well... maybe just someone) asked that went "If you kept upgrading your body with machinery, when would you stop living? Assume that every part of your body could be replaced."
It all boils down to the definition of Life. You would no longer be alive if you were all machinery (by biological definition), but your mind would not cease to exist.
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