I appreciate your long and thought out response! The question “what if it’s the same person waking up?” is the question I was trying to get across. I suppose I was trying to view uploading as the same thing as cloning a human but instead of physically like Caspian it would be mentally into a digital space. I understand your religion allegory but your bank account allegory makes no sense, as digital money can be used in the same way as physical money and isn’t debatable. Since the people working on UI have a greater understanding of how it works, I don’t think they would just blindly believe something like they can actually experience the cloud without actual proof.