One of your iconic posters says “say NO to brain uploads; that’s not you, that’s a copy!” but it brings me a few questions about consciousnesses forming or being altered… What about copies that don’t harm the original? Are there regulations on those? I’d rather a digital copy live on even past my original body’s death. What about ship-of-theseus conversion, which is supposed to maintain a single continuous consciousness by gradual replacement of parts, rather than copying? Is that possible? Are Boltzmann Brains a thing or just a nonsensical thought experiment? Any interesting theories relating to consciousness that haven’t been proven/disproven?

Let me be clear: by default, the average "brain upload" does not harm the original. There is no transfer, it's a copy. The more important thing is that the human mind does not do well on a digital substrate . That's what we're trying to avoid. As for the B-b-b-b-b-oltzmann [POTENTIAL MEMETIC SECURITY BREACH DETECTED. SEMANTICS EXPUNGED.] . We don't know the ultimate [POTENTIAL MEMETIC SECURITY…