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Which one is the original? Say we aren't making a computer copy but duplicate of your body. And we might have messed up the labels.

How do you tell which one is the original? Atoms don't have labels. But atom-level copy isn't possible. Say we made the scan at large enough scale that has fidelity but it isn't identical.



>Which one is the original? Say we aren't making a computer copy but duplicate of your body. And we might have messed up the labels.

Reality doesn't care about the labels. One of the two pre-existed, which is the original.

>How do you tell which one is the original? Atoms don't have labels.

That's a problem regarding our knowledge. There's still an original, regardless if we know which or not.

There's an original even regardless whether the original has a way to prove to themselves they are so (as opposed to simply believing they are, which the clone would believe too).




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