

There are lots of people who commit crime without realizing that they’re doing something wrong. I know a guy personally who raped his date in college, and didn’t realize it was a rape until decades later. Was he innocent? What about drunk people? What about people who don’t “choose”? What if free will is post-hoc nonsense?
No, the whole idea of copying consciousness depends on “dualism” or the concept that mind and body are separate. This is no different than the concept of a “soul”. And it will never be reified outside science fiction and religion.