I honestly don’t understand why the less severe version of the failure is less severe.
I’m also not convinced that we share a working definition of a mind. It sounds like you are saying that there are no arguments with which to compel arbitrary physical systems, but an upload of me plus a small voice recognition system that reboots me to the state I was once in after hearing “is the sky green” asked whenever it hears someone ask “is the sky blue” doesn’t, IMHO, sound like something I would call a mind. Rather, I would call the upload a mind and the voice recognition and reboot system something external to that mind.
I honestly don’t understand why the less severe version of the failure is less severe.
I’m also not convinced that we share a working definition of a mind. It sounds like you are saying that there are no arguments with which to compel arbitrary physical systems, but an upload of me plus a small voice recognition system that reboots me to the state I was once in after hearing “is the sky green” asked whenever it hears someone ask “is the sky blue” doesn’t, IMHO, sound like something I would call a mind. Rather, I would call the upload a mind and the voice recognition and reboot system something external to that mind.