Only if you deny the reality of consciousness being tied to a physical substrate.

Incorrect.

To deny that is to assert that consciousness is non-physical, i.e. a soul exists; the case in which a soul exists, brain uploads don't get them and don't get to be moral subjects.

	▲	mrob 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's the exact opposite. The original is the original because it ran on the original hardware. The copy is created inferior because it did not. Intentionally creating inferior beings of equal moral weight is wrong.