Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I make a perfectly identical clone of you, and then shoot you dead, will you resume your consciousness in that clone? Why? Alternatively, if I shoot the clone, will the clone resume its consciousness in you? By what process?
The strange places this leads arrive almost immediately. Are you the same person after you take a nap? Doesn't your consciousness basically dissolve and then reconstitute itself when "you" wake? What about from second to second, between moments of inattention? Are we relying on the "stability" of your constituent atoms? On some "arrangement" of them? On a particular locus of sensation (the goo in your brain pan)? Wha…
Yes.
> Doesn't your consciousness basically dissolve and then reconstitute itself when "you" wake?
Yes.
> What about from second to second, between moments of inattention?
Yes.
> Are we relying on the "stability" of your constituent atoms?
Yes.
> On some "arrangement" of them?
Yes.
> On a particular locus of sensation (the goo in your brain pan)?
Yes.
> What if we "clone" you by copying every other atom into a "left" clone, leaving the original in the right, and doing the reverse on the alternating atoms? Which resulting "clone" is you?
My father replaced the handle, and I replaced the blade, but it's still my grandfather's axe?
Neither. You ripped my brain in half, I am dead.