Fast forward a few hundred years...scientists are able to map your entire mind in its exact current state, and reproduce a body EXACTLY the same as the one you are in, so they build a copy of you. Is either one, the "real" you, and why or why not?
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TheicidalManiac
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Great question! The real me is the one with the brain damage! HAHAHA! Or - the real me is the oldest of the two. What do you think, TheicidalManiac?
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That depends on your definition of "Real".
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Your copy would think it's the real you, and you would think you're the real you. There'd be no way to resolve the debate. You both would be sentient and self-aware, and your thoughts would start out identically, and then diverge as you began from somewhat different starting positions and you'd see things from a slightly different perspective. Essentially like *really* identical twins.
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I think that neither one would be less 'real' than the other. They both couldn't occupy the same dimensional space (unless scientist in your future jump that hurdle, too) so I would still look at them a separate, unique (though admittedly less unique relative to each other than to others) people.
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