The bazingas use the “you believe in souls” accusation to project their own woo because of their own fear of death, and sometimes even concern troll assume that I’m somehow invalidating the “perfect” copy’s personhood in the thought experiment. I’m not. In fact, the belief that the copy is the original person denies the personhood of that new person in favor of whatever bazinga wanted to believe in the “upload” to begin with.

Also, regarding that death cult startup: memories are not the person. If someone loses some of their memories, are they now “less” of a person somehow? Again, the woo is on them.