Dagny's personality is downloaded not at the moment of her death but while she is still alive. Therefore, living Dagny and download Dagny coexist for a period of time during which they accumulate different memories and become increasingly divergent personalities. When living Dagny dies, the by now divergent download continues but Dagny's personality at the moment of death ends. That personality is not recorded, resurrected or reincarnated anywhere. The existing download is not continuous with it.
If living Dagny had a soul, then that soul has entered the hereafter. If the download has a soul (Why should it? Why shouldn't it?), then that soul will enter the hereafter when the download is deleted, erased, destroyed etc. Although we naturally assume a continuity between living Guthrie and download Guthrie, there is no such continuity - the original living Guthrie is dead - as becomes more evident when there is more than one download.
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Kaor, Paul!
A fascinating question, since I do believe in the reality of "souls."
That is, CAN a soul be copied via it being downloanded into an artificial neural network? Since I don't in the least believe that to be possible, the question is moot and unanswerable.
Sean
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