Depends on which "creature" you consider has free will.
I think it confirms a sci-fi theory that I have: if you want to "upload" a human to a computer, it's not enough to copy the brain. You basically have to copy and simulate the whole body.
This is the big reveal of the Keanu Reeves/Thomas Middleditch (no, that's really the cast) movie "Replicas". I am deliberately spoiling it to save anyone else the pain of watching it.
My best-case scenario is that the movie does not exist, and my memories of watching it are simply my brain's dying hallucinations, patching together memories of The Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic When I Was 13, and Silicon Valley Seasons 1-3.
I think I've started watching this movie a few times only to realize not very far into the film that it was so bad I blocked out the memory of watching it.
Simulating the entire organism would likely predict behaviors but would not qualify as an "upload" as the original copy still exists in reality. There is no transfer of awareness
I think it confirms a sci-fi theory that I have: if you want to "upload" a human to a computer, it's not enough to copy the brain. You basically have to copy and simulate the whole body.