That’s the day to day lived experience of like half the queer people in the world. I rejected part of my family and kicked them out of my life. i don’t have to imagine it, I’ve lived it.

Okay, and are you the same person you were before that? I’ve experienced that too, and I don’t think I am the person I was before. I think I became someone else in order to survive. If I could somehow go back in time and meet myself we would hardly recognize each other!

they’d definitely be forced to pay taxes.

No, they’d be property and someone else would have to pay taxes for owning them.

When I talk about the sociocultural context I’m talking about the fact that society would not treat the mind upload as a person. We have not developed far enough along our historical material context to recognize uploads as people. The trauma of that experience would necessitate becoming a different person entirely, and thus, they’re no longer an upload of you. That’s the problem with talking about mind uploads.

You are not just your brain (and its supporting structures). You are your context.