> Are you the same person after you take a nap? Yes. > Doesn't your consciousness basically dissolve and then reconstitute itself when "you" wake? Yes. > Wh

> Are you the same person after you take a nap? Yes. > Doesn't your consciousness basically dissolve and then reconstitute itself when "you" wake? Yes. > What about from second to second, between moments of inattention? Yes. > Are we relying on the "stability" of your constituent atoms? Yes. > On some "arrangement" of them? Yes. > On a particular locus of sensation (the goo in your brain pan)? Yes. > What if we "clone" you by copying every other atom into a "left" clone, leaving the original in the right, and doing the reverse on the alternating atoms? Which resulting "clone" is you? My father replaced the handle, and I replaced the blade, but it's still my grandfather's axe? Neither. You ripped my brain in half, I am dead.