I can see why a theory of consciousness that argues that you’re not the atoms, but the pattern, wouldn’t care whether that pattern is realized in meat or in silicon, but my subjective experience of continuity of memories is what confirms that I’m still me. Once you copy my mind with zero loss onto a digital, durable substrate, my original brain would still have strong objections to being switched off.
In both cases I’d say they’re different persons.
I can see why a theory of consciousness that argues that you’re not the atoms, but the pattern, wouldn’t care whether that pattern is realized in meat or in silicon, but my subjective experience of continuity of memories is what confirms that I’m still me. Once you copy my mind with zero loss onto a digital, durable substrate, my original brain would still have strong objections to being switched off.