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So, what is going in the bloodstream of these "digital minds?" That will change the way they function completely.
What kind of sensory input are they being supplied?
Why would they have fake nerves running to non-existent hands, feet, hearts and digestive systems?
Will we improve them voluntary? Are they allowed to request improvements?
I would certainly request a few improvements, if I was one.
Point being: what you end up with if you go down this road is not a copy of a human mind: It is almost immediately a neuromorphic entity.
A lot of analysis in this book imagines that these entities will continue to be somewhat human-like for quite some time. That direction does not parse for me.
People who have thought about this seem to mostly think that a lot of things would change quickly - I suspect any disagreement you have with Bostrom is about whether this creature derived from a human is close enough to a human to be thought of as basically human-like. Note that Bostrom thinks of the space of possible minds as being vast, so even a very weird human-descendent might seem basically human-like.