It's an interesting philosophical question, but identity is only one aspect of the nature of consciousness. (And asking whether one would "accept" the clone isn

It's an interesting philosophical question, but identity is only one aspect of the nature of consciousness. (And asking whether one would "accept" the clone isn't a particularly good framing of the problem.) Far more interesting to me is how consciousness even occurs. It is seemingly impossible to study, because consciousness is fundamentally not externally observable. Even in humans, we have essentially no way of knowing for sure that anyone but oneself is conscious.