But I’m not looking from my copy’s point of view, am I? And if you posit that I may be the copy in the first place, then the original isn’t looking from my point of view.
Both my clone and I feel like we are starman, but both of us would acknowledge that we are not the same starman. We’re two almost perfectly identical sets of neurons and chemical reactions between those neurons, but even ignoring the fact that we stopped being identical the moment we start receiving different inputs from our senses, the fact that we do not occupy the same space means that we are separate entities. If one of us dies, they don’t get to keep living on in the form of the other.
From the copies point of view, it is you.
But I’m not looking from my copy’s point of view, am I? And if you posit that I may be the copy in the first place, then the original isn’t looking from my point of view.
Both feel they are you. And it’s only one point of view, during the time you both exist, that’s lost when one of you dies. The second you persists.
Both my clone and I feel like we are starman, but both of us would acknowledge that we are not the same starman. We’re two almost perfectly identical sets of neurons and chemical reactions between those neurons, but even ignoring the fact that we stopped being identical the moment we start receiving different inputs from our senses, the fact that we do not occupy the same space means that we are separate entities. If one of us dies, they don’t get to keep living on in the form of the other.