>>10469648>There will be no difference as to waking up from a good night's sleepIt will seem that way to the copy, but not to the original.
Consider nano-engineering.
Let's keep it simple (and _really_ small).
Say we come up with a transistor using a dozen atoms (yes, I know there's an allegedly "single atom" transistor out there, but that's not counting the source and drain electrodes).
If I make a transistor out of a dozen atoms, and then take it back apart, then (years later) I make another transistor with the same design, is it the SAME transistor?
No. It isn't.
Functionally equivalent, yes.
Identical, sure, why not.
The same transistor? No, obviously not.
Still not convinced?
What If I never dismantled the original?
If I make two dozen-atom transistors with the same design, are they the both the same transistor?
If you can Xerox people, and make a thousand copies of Will Ferrell, are they all the "same person"?
