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Wouldn't such a person believe that you can't fully simulate a person at all with a conventional computer though?
You could fully simulate the person's consciousness. The simulation won't have any subjective experience, and it might also be very inefficient from a computational perspective. Compare running an executable program on a computer vs. running the same program in an interpreted VM.