Copies aren't each other: the core of the identity debate
ZyMazza · x · 2026-09-24
In the ongoing personal identity debate, ZyMazza replies to the double-instantiation argument: setting aside who gets to be 'you,' the fact is the copies aren't each other — when one dies the other lives on, unaffected — so one's existence doesn't prolong the other's.
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