This is a pretty big philosophical question. There's no universal answer, just opinions. Your conclusion is not the obvious one for everybody. What happens if

This is a pretty big philosophical question. There's no universal answer, just opinions. Your conclusion is not the obvious one for everybody. What happens if you have an identical copy down to the atom. Totally impossible to distinguish. You're put to sleep and your mind is copied over. When you both wake, which one is "you"? Both copies think they're "you" and both are correct. Each has the same sense of self and continuity of identity. Maybe at the moment of synchronization "you" ceased to exist as you branched into two new identities. Say you upload into a computer. From the copy's perspective, it is "you", it's the same self. It might view your biological body like you'd view an old computer after you finish migrating your files to a new one. Say you destroy the biological body, or wipe its brain once you copy. Does that change the equation? If you destroyed one of the identical clones, is it even relevant to ask which is "you"? Personally, I think Altered Carbon comes close to how our society will solve this problem. The original copy has its brain wiped and the new copy is "you" by cultural consensus. Truly duplicating a single identity is strongly taboo and illegal. I think this is a question that either matters to you or it doesn't. In my opinion, it's irrelevant. I, the original "me" am totally free to agree with the copy that it is "me". I can choose to give it my social and legal identity and agree that "me" is no longer "I". My personal choice is to destroy the original, but one could also choose to let the original body continue and assume a new identity, live a new life or whatever. I view this the same way I do my past self. The person I was ten years ago is not "me", it was a totally different person. That past self lived a different life and had a sense of identity that isn't at all like what I have today. That past me, the ego that called itself "me" died a long time ago and the "me" now is a different self identity built out of new pieces. In my worldview, "me" is a transient thing. The self is not one fixed thing, it changes over time and sometimes it's replaced. I don't see the idea of transferring my sense of self to a new body as anything more extreme than any other kind of ego death. I choose to resolve this problem with practicality. I agree with myself that the new copy is "me". My social and legal identity, as well as my own sense of self transfer to the copy. My choice would be to destroy the original copy. Barring that, it would assume a new identity and live a different life far away. It'd get a memory wipe if available. I can make the choice to sacrifice my ego and allow "me" to be assumed by someone else. To me, even to the original copy, the new copy is me. In my opinion, "me" is immortal in the digital copy, even if "I" remain in a mortal body.