Originally Posted by A_Wise_Fool

Hypothetically it could be either. Like if you could scan every cell in your own brain and instantly make a simulated replica.

But it would just be a copy of my consciousness, not "my" consciousness.


Now here is an interesting question: would that simulation have... rights....?


I think despite it being exactly like me it would be a (newly found term I just discovered) Philosophical zombie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. And this comes from my belief that it wouldn't possess a soul.