I never understood the people who literally believe that instantiating a 1:1 computer emulation of your mind would literally be you
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Continuity of consciousness is a meaningful concept that doesn't require any essentialism about the self, this train of thought is ridiculous. Nothing can be an illusion to nothing, therefore the mere concept of "consciousness being an illusion" is self contradictory nonsense
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That's an equivocation over the meaning of the word conscious, or at least there's no evidence to conflate the two, and even if they were the same it would only prove that nature is indifferent to consciousness as a phenomenon and doesn't care if you die every night. Is ought.
End of conversation
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