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.
I’m not so sure about that. A mind in a machine lacks the chemical soup in the blood and tissues which drives behaviours far more than we’d perhaps like to admit.
Emulating a personality means emulating the whole human or else what you’ll get will be an approximation, and perhaps not even a very good one.