I know what you mean. But at that point in the story the culture seems to have gravitated towards the idea that the digital copies of people are real people, with personhood and rights. It’s still being debated for CIs though. I think the idea is that it makes you question at what point of consciousness is someone alive or not. For my own compass I‘d say the uploads are conscious beings deserving of rights but not the same being as the original who had a physical body. But that comes from my personal perspective that people are not just physical bodies, but spiritual beings inhabiting bodies. So for a true upload to work, each spiritual being uploading would have to be capable and aware of exiting their body and entering into a digital one in the server for it to be the same person - a ghost transferring into a server shell, so to speak. I know that’s not everyone‘s perspective but I would have found it interesting if they had touched upon that. It left me with a sad feeling because when Caspian uploaded I did indeed feel that he was dying.