Yes, we started diverging at “fork” - the other me is different than current me, but we are both the old me. And the legal stuff is indeed down to law, althoug

Yes, we started diverging at “fork” - the other me is different than current me, but we are both the old me. And the legal stuff is indeed down to law, although I believe even from that point of view both “yous” are still you, because there is no way to tell you apart. That’s also why there is no “original” and the copy - of there was a way to tell which is which, you wouldn’t be identical. And there is no delusion - the other me is the “old me” same way I am. I think the essential problem with this point of view is similar to many words theory - to most people the idea of “cheap fork” sounds quite alien; I’m not sure if there’s anything similar in our usual reality. It is however common in the internets, from Unix to Git.