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This is similar to the "teleport by duplicate and kill you", there's been an enormous amount of philosophy stuff written on it. See https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/26yvrp/the_teleporter_thought_experiment/
I have long been confused by the idea of "mind uploading" or "consciousness uploading", because it seems on its face to be merely allowing yourself to be replaced by a realistic copy.
Being replaced by a copy is not something I find any value in, as it's equivalent to death. Therefore, unless there's some reason to expect that I, the subjective experience of me, will "wake up" as an immortal algorithm, it's useless to me.
I gather this is not an intuition shared by everyone, so, if this isn't necessarily the case - why?