Chalmers's paper of 2010 holds that functionalist theories, on which uploads can be conscious, are closer to the truth. It states that he is unsure whether a further-fact or a deflationary view of personal identity is correct; on the former, gradual uploading plausibly suffices for survival, and on the latter it is close to as good as ordinary survival.

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