Gotcha. OK, try this then:
At time T1, I begin replacing my meat with cloud.
At T2, I complete that process.
At T3, I make a copy of my cloud-self.
Is it your intuition that that third step ought to fail? If so, can you unpack that intuition?
If you think that third step can succeed, do you have the same problem? That is, if I can have two copies of my cloud-self running simultaneously, do you not get what that would be like?
My answer to what that would be like is it would be just like this. That is, if you make a cloud-copy of me while I'm sleeping, I wouldn't know it, and the existence of that cloud-copy wouldn't in any way impinge on my experience of the world. Also, I would wake up in the cloud, and the existence of my meat body would not in any way impinge on my experience of the world. There's just two entities, both of which are me.
I guess I have similar problems with the third step. I'm really sorry if it seems like I'm just refusing to update, and thanks a bunch; that last part really did help. But consider the following:
Last night, somebody made a cloud-copy of you, but you don't know it. In a few hours, that person comes and kills you (maybe you're asleep when he does it, but I don't think that really matters).
Isn't that still like dying? I know that to the world it's the same, but from the inside, it's death, right?. Have you read HPMoR? Fred and George are basical...
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