LogFAQs > #924150205

KingButz posted...

I'd argue the copy is just as real whether the original is alive or not. Like in Moon.

But then you're devaluing both the copy and the original. The two diverge in experiences and choices after that, so if they are both equally real, then that means that experiences and choices aren't what define a person. So then what made the original person themselves?

That's what Soma was addressing. The key idea is not the perfect mental clone, they had that technology for a while. It was the Continuity. The idea that your real self jumps from moment to moment in a continuous line. If the line splits into two, it's not continuous anymore, so both paths lose Continuity and thus lose their selves.
---

_foolmo_
2 + 2 = 4