• Derproid@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The thought process assumes it is a complete and perfect cloning of all aspects we do and don’t understand. The reason the clone is not you is because if I do something to the clone it does not affect you.

    Like if you take a water bottle and clone it, drinking one does not cause the other to be empty. Thus they must be two separate things.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      If both the original and the clone are identical, then at that moment they are both me, and neither is more valid than the other. That there’s two of me does not invalidate either version. Neither do their divergences going forward.