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Reproduction and evolution is arguably literally how biology forks. You can also think of it as a tree of consciousness. Cloning would probably work the same in regards to consciousness. My clone would be a distinct branch of consciousness.
There's little reason to think thought experiment level precision of cloning/duplication and teleportation are at all physically possible though.
1I have a theory about this. It’s because diet, in particular above literally everything else, is extremely core to who a person is. In fact, diet encapsulates culture to a large degree. The ethical problem of killing animals is obvious to literally every person though. So when you say you are vegan or vegetarian, it is implied that you are saying you have absolved yourself from a near universal ethical problem, and you are directly attacking the culture and identity of the person and identifying yourself as a superior human. Even if you have no tinge of th...
A single experiment, especially if it has a small sample size---but even large sample sizes can be ruined by experimental error etc.---or even a small number of such experiments which confirm each other---just aren't going to give very reliable results for a complex system.
When things are tightly controlled in a lab for a simple system (with few variables), then basic statistical methods can yield believable results. This is why the replication problem is mostly in psychology, medicine, and social sciences (I presume biology & ecology should be on the ...
So in reading your comments of this post, I feel like I am reading comments made by a clone of my own mind. Though you articulate my views better than I can. This particular comment you make, I don't think it gets The attention it deserves. It was pretty revolutionary for myself when I learned to think of almost every worldview at a model of reality. It's most revolutionary when one realizes what is arguably an outdated Newtonian view to fall into this category of model. It really highlights that actual reality is at the least very hard to get at. This is a severe an issue with regards to consciousness.