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But what's the difference between "non-destructive upload" and "making a copy of the upload" or "making a copy of your biological body" ?
The intuition behind "Copy my mind to a machine non-destructively, and I still identify with meat-me." is flawed and non-coherent IMHO. What if you can't even tell apart "meat you" and the other one, like the other one is put in a robotic body that looks, feels, ... exactly like the flesh body ? You fall asleep, you awake, there are two "you", one flesh the other robotic, how can you even know which is which ? Both will feel they are "real you".
There are countless similar thought experiments in which this view leads to contradictions/impossible answers. IMHO the only way to resolve them is accept that continuity of personal identity is at software level, not as hardware level.
You are misunderstanding the argument.
More exactly I don't really understand it, because it relies on presumptions/intuitions that I don't have. My point was mostly to try to get those made more explicit so I can better understand (and then accept or refute) the argument. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.