>>10023875It depends on how you define “I”.There is no fact of the matter. The fact that you use “I” to refer to your body through time is also just convention. Think about it, you only ever experience the now. There is no way to know whether the past you or future you is “the real you”, but we pretend we do it because it is a convenient definition.
This cloning conundrum occurs, because it is not something we ever really deal with, so there is no established convention who “the real you” is, but you’re free to make up your own. If cloning (e.g., uploading your brain and running on a computer and making copies of that) ever becomes commonplace, our descendants will have to come to some kind of consensus as to what we mean by “I”. It may be hard to determine for us now what a good definition will be, because we do not know what the practical problems will be exactly.
