The 'paradox' here is not how the person changes over twenty years, but what happens in the very moment of creating a copy. We're not dealing with a Ship of Th

The 'paradox' here is not how the person changes over twenty years, but what happens in the very moment of creating a copy. We're not dealing with a Ship of Theseus problem, that's something else entirely. I personally am horrified by possibly developing dementia one day, exactly because of that. But this is also a different problem because it affects the original body.