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This post is in dire need of a reference to Hofstadter's I am a Strange Loop.
Also maybe Halperin's The First Immortal which explicitly considers the possibility raised here.
Also maybe Lion Kimbro.
And in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe there are two major types of simulations of people, the alphas are a very accurate model from a fast, destructive scan of the brain, while the betas are essentially this.