I suppose I don't really have an opinion on whether the new thing is a copy of me or, well, a 'real' me. For all practical purposes I think we should consider it a real me - particularly if no one could tell the difference.

But here's the context of what I was talking about. It was hinted that we might just dump human consciousness into a computer. My argument is that I'm not sure that's possible. We'll probably be able to augment human consciousness with computers. We can surely move data to the computer. But will we be able to move ME into the computer? I'm guessing not.