If you want to reply only to my first paragraph and ignore the rest, you can. It's just there to set up the rest of my post though, which I think does address your point in an interesting way.

You misunderstand. I do not think that identity is transferable, only that there is no real difference in the "realness" of the identities that the physical and the digital Kelly and Yorkie possess.

Right, but that's an overly simplistic definition of identity. For example, we lose continuity of consciousness every night when we sleep. Even if you consider dreams to qualify as consciousness, we only dream for a portion of our sleep cycle. Or what about situations in which cortical activity is significantly…