O.K. I the soul is truly in a different dimension, than I can't foresee manufacturing one. However, if the soul is really no more than the electro-chemical processes ongoing in our brains, then I do believe we could create a soul. This is what A.I. is all about. However, I am also asking, can we create A.I. in an ethereal form?
There are different dimensions of our energy; that which you speak about is our "ethereal body", it is our "life energy", our "bioelectricity". That is just a part of our soul (we normally call soul that part of our body which we can´t see, but it more complex than that).
The "ethereal body" is born with the physical body, and it will die with the physical body and it will die approximately 4 days after the physical death takes place. That is how I understand the resurrection of Jesus and Lazarus, they were both resurrected in the third day, same happened in the Heb-Seb festival of the Egyptian Pharaohs; the ethereal body is an exact replica of our physical body, it will vanish after the 4th day of the physical death; and in life, it will distribute our energy within the body in the way of chakras (Sanskrit for “wheel”). It is “wheel” because they have the shape of spheres of energy, like stars. As a matter of fact, they could very well be considered stars from the subatomic perspective.
The “energy healing” or reiki, or “spiritual healing” or “shamanism”, or “acupuncture”; or the healing that Jesus taught and performed the healing of our energy body works on this form of energy, the “ethereal body”. And it is the healing of our chakras. Enlightened men have this capability; they heal the person’s “ethereal body”. Sai Baba has healed thousands of people with this virtue, the virtue of being able to heal the energy body of another being through compassion, there is no way of healing through hate, only love & compassion.
After the “ethereal body”, we have the “Karmic body” or “emotions energy”. It doesn’t die after the death of the physical body, but it contains our karmic debt to existence; it is an emotional debt, either of happiness or sorrow.
The third is the “Christ/Guardian angel/soul”, it is the part of you which never dies and never changes, and it is what we call “soul”, the “eternal traveler”. This “soul” has a mirror-like quality, and it reflects everything we perceive as real, but it is an illusion, our physical body is just reflected in that mirror. During our life, the mirror-like quality becomes dirty with the “ego”, and you need to die, in order to “clean” the inner-mirror, and be reborn in different circumstances with a clean mirror.
That is why we say that children are somewhat enlightened, their mirror-like quality is utterly clean. That is the purpose of enlightment, to cleanse that mirror-like quality without the death of our physical body; that is why enlightened men say that “they are no more”, “there is no “I””, it is because it is like dying, the death of the ego, the second birth.
This I got from Tibetan knowledge of chakras and soul, it is much complex, and I believe is just the tip of the iceberg of the real energy behind our physical bodies.
Could you create such a phenomena without the physical body? I seriously don’t think so.