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So the interesting part in my mind for this is that you would die and be gone, there would just exist another entity that can perfectly replicate you. Take for example the case of there being two of you, which one is the real one? The original? What if I kill the original? Does the new one become the real you? But what if I don't kill you but let the duplicate replace your life. Are you the real you trapped in some cell, or is the duplicate the real you living your life?
My point really is that it's all a matter of perspective. For everyone else the clone would be the real you, but from your perspective you are the real you and the clone stole your life.
I'm not my body and I'm not my mind. I am the ethical soul, the decision-making process. If the replacement makes all the same decisions I would, it IS me.
No, because not all my decisions are language-based. As gotchas go, this one's particularly lazy.
But I don't make all my decisions linguistically. A model that did would never act as I do.