/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15928953
>, and brought them back, you did not kill them,
if you did "bring them back" by implanting their brainstate in some kind of clone, you would have killed them

what "you" are is your atoms with all subatomic particles and their influence from the big bang to their formation as elements in stars to now. If I destroy the "you" you are now and make a copy later someplace else it will be a copy the atoms in the copy will not share the history of time and location and creation from the big bang till now. And thus will not be "you" and thus will react slightly differently to stimuli and situations than "you" would because the thing that is you with your history only exists once. As they say in the collector market about cars and shit:

"it's only original once" if you repaint a car and change a bunch of shit out, it's not original anymore; it's different, it does not have the provenance and history of the real original unaltered