Drawing conclusions from what little neuroscience I’ve managed to overhear, the conscious mind isn’t even the part where you live most of the time. It fires up when you’re paying it attention. Instantaneous experience (“qualia”) exists outside it except the ephemeral experience of being conscious. Playback experience exists inside but references outside it. However it’s the part where your human-level intents exist. If all the rest of the brain were copied to a sim, but not the conscious mind, I think you’d have no difficulty labeling that “not me”. Miss a comparable sized chunk of your unconscious, and you might not even notice.
Drawing conclusions from what little neuroscience I’ve managed to overhear, the conscious mind isn’t even the part where you live most of the time. It fires up when you’re paying it attention. Instantaneous experience (“qualia”) exists outside it except the ephemeral experience of being conscious. Playback experience exists inside but references outside it. However it’s the part where your human-level intents exist. If all the rest of the brain were copied to a sim, but not the conscious mind, I think you’d have no difficulty labeling that “not me”. Miss a comparable sized chunk of your unconscious, and you might not even notice.