I’ve been watching the TV series Pantheon and I really like it, but this tiny aspect is something I can’t quite grasp. So these people have their minds uploaded to the cloud - and they make a point to state that they’re still “them” - alive, real, authentic. But would it really be like that? The process is brain mapping, so essentially they just make a perfect clone of your brain/mind and run it digitally. But it’s still just a simulation. A perfect clone is still just a clone. The original person is gone. I don’t see the “continuity” aspect.
Weirdly, the animated show Invincible does a pretty good job exploring this a bit with the team of villains where one is a clone of the other and they’re always arguing over who the “original” is this time. Until one inevitably uses the other as a meat shield to escape… Only to later clone himself again and repeat…
They help the one “guy” (more just like a really smart, deformed clump of flesh in a vat) transfer his consciousness into another human body.
After the process, he mentions that he didn’t expect it to be so “continuous.” His first thought was “which one am I?”
Anyway, I thought they did a good job exploring the topic…
What I loved is that both knew what needed to be done next because he planned it before being copied.