But I would imagine that even without the body, you could re-learn how to move and coordinate your actions, although it might take some time.

I'm much less worried by this than I am by the prospect that I'd have to do the same for many of my normal thought patterns due to unforeseen inter-dependencies.

And possibly a SAI could figure out what your body must have been like just from your brain, not sure.

Indeed, that's one of the reasons why I prefer thinking about it solely in terms of stored information: a redundant copy only really constitutes a pointer's worth of information. It's even conceivable that a SAI could reconstruct missing neural information in non-obvious ways, like a few stray frames of video. Not worth betting on, though.

Thanks for the informative reply.