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.
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.