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I know almost nothing but the Sleeping Beauty Problem, so this seems like a good learning opportunity.
I answer that these clones have no more reason to doubt Fred's cognitive abilities than Fred did, and thus have no new reason to re-evaluate all their beliefs. Well, unless they believed that copying people was impossible.
Well, Fred believed that he was on earth. Should the clones not re-evaluate that belief? Somewhere they seem to have acquired new information.
Well obviously they're going to need to draw new conclusions from new information. But the gist of the question is whether they should trust their original's conclusions about religion, politics, etc. And they should.