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Let me phrase this differently: if instead of a copy being made it depicted the character's body being hooked up to a machine and stagnant while the AI Construct wandered around in a terrifying world, would it make it any more you, the implication that they transferred your mind from your body to another world? Would the journey of trying to "get back to their body" make it more the actual person, or would it only be so if they successfully made it back to the body? Schrodinger's Real Self; where it could be both them and not them depending on success or failure. This having your mind trapped in a terrifying computer simulation is a trope that pops up consistently and people have no trouble following this guy simulated them is the real them.

What if later on they revealed that the you in the chair was just in a coma and could wake up? Would the other you suddenly be less you? It's just making an exact copy, like hitting copy and paste on the computer, it's the same to every detail. Your kids aren't you whatsoever. They may share DNA, but we aren't DNA, like I said, we aren't our bodies, we are our experiences.

The AI Constructs are, of course, real people for all intents and purposes. Bandersnatch plays with this because instead of AI constructs it delves into alternate realities. Every reality you play through is connected, they all exist concurrently, even if the main guy or the blonde guy die, they still exist, exactly as they were, in another universe. Does Pac-Man dying matter if he has hundreds of lives?