That’s pretty much what the GP said as well and platitudes about how we are constantly changing are fine but change isn’t the same as copy and destroy; which is

That’s pretty much what the GP said as well and platitudes about how we are constantly changing are fine but change isn’t the same as copy and destroy; which is what the upload process would be. That distinction is critically important. You can change an original and it will still be the original. But taking a copy and making that your primary copy means destroying the original. Which is fine if you’re talking purely about dumb digital bits like we normally do. However when those bits become self-aware programs executing, destroying the original is a literal death sentence. I guess a prolonged “merger” with the internet where the artificial mediums were used, at first, as an external processing unit. Then gradually you switch over. I guess that might solve the problem of “switching off” the original. However that’s not how the process is typically described.