I understand "perfect copy" to mean that it is the thing it is a copy of -- functionally and observationally indistinguishable.
I don't see the words "perfect copy" or even just "copy" used anywhere in the article, only simulation and representation. That consciousness can be produced in a traditional silicon computer via an algorithm merely isomorphic to the processes in the human brain is an assumption I don't yet grant.
From David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity:
I'm not so sure we have the computing power to "simulate a person," but suppose we did. (Perhaps we will soon.) How would you respond to this worry?