I was going to write "I don't think this specifically is where we need to look", but then I remembered there's two different reasons for mind uploading.
If you want the capabilities and don't care either way about personhood of the uploads, this is exactly what you need.
If you do care about the personhood of the uploads, regardless of if you want them to have it (immortality) or not have it (a competent workforce that doesn't need good conditions), we have yet to even figure out in a rigorous testable sense what 'personhood' really means — which is why we're still arguing about the ethics of abortion and meat.
I was going to write "I don't think this specifically is where we need to look", but then I remembered there's two different reasons for mind uploading.
If you want the capabilities and don't care either way about personhood of the uploads, this is exactly what you need.
If you do care about the personhood of the uploads, regardless of if you want them to have it (immortality) or not have it (a competent workforce that doesn't need good conditions), we have yet to even figure out in a rigorous testable sense what 'personhood' really means — which is why we're still arguing about the ethics of abortion and meat.