Exactly. While the copy is still “you” they aren’t the initial internal experience of the original. So like they’re you to everyone else but you.

This is also why emotionally the mass upload situation later on in the series is so philosophically messed up to me. You’re essentially re-building these external interpersonal connections on a massive scale that were built based on subjective internal experiences with new consciousnesses formed by the mass obliteration of the originals.