>>10954965But not the person who uploaded their brain. He essentially just split his soul.
He dies all the same, just a shadow of him lives on.
Call it selfish, but I'm dragging my soul down with me when I die-- I don't want a ghost running around after I'm dead.
Unless... completely conscious mind uploads become a reality. In this way, I am simultaneously both my flesh and the machine. A Ship of Theseus incarnate. After complete symbiosis (note, not conversion) losing your fleshy self would be only like going blind, or paraplegic, or both. YOU would live on. But your soul, is it the same as it was? I know not.