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> If you delete your brain, get a new brain and put in the same weights in the neurons its a clone, its not you.

Your whole argument hinges on this, and I don't think it's true.

A clone is not what you describe, not even close. Clones are copies of DNA, not of the actual physical neuron structures.

If you were to vanish, and the next moment a perfect atom-for-atom, particle-for-particle, quark-for-quark copy appear in exactly the same place, I think that is you. As far as I know, that does happen every single planck second.

For it to be you, though, it needs to occupy the same space you were previously in. You can't copy your atoms 5 times over in 5 different locations; those aren't you, they're just similar. Like copying an LLM 5 times over to different hardware, seeding its RNG differently each time.

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