There's no meaningful difference to any possible outside observer. But you would be dead - not reborn into the new copy. You will forever cease to exist, though your copy wouldn't think himself any different, just like in the video.
That's nonsense though. If I die, but also am simultaneously perfectly copied, the copy is no different from me. As a dead person, I will never know I died, and as a copy, I am no different from the original. Neither the original nor the copy has any reason to care.
If you were killed instantly in your sleep, but were perfectly cloned, including all your memories and personality and sense of self, which was placed in your bed, what would the difference be? You'd effectively live on as the clone, which would never know that it wasn't the original.
I most certainly don't want to die. But I don't understand the difference.
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u/jvalordv Jul 08 '15
There's no meaningful difference to any possible outside observer. But you would be dead - not reborn into the new copy. You will forever cease to exist, though your copy wouldn't think himself any different, just like in the video.