DanArmak comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 02 May 2012 05:50:04PM 4 points [-]

a perfect clone of you is no longer you

Not necessarily. "What/who is you" is a matter of definition to a large extent. If particles have identities (but are still identical to all possible measurements), that doesn't stop me from defining my personhood as rooted in the pattern, and identifying with other sufficiently similar instances of the pattern.