You have a computer running an instance of a web server. Now, you make a clone of the computer, including the ram, L1 cache, exact copy. The second computer wou

You have a computer running an instance of a web server. Now, you make a clone of the computer, including the ram, L1 cache, exact copy. The second computer would then be running an instance of web server as well. Are you saying the second computer's web server instance is the first computer's web server instance? I don't think so, even if information was perfectly copied!; from this point on whatever happens to the first web server might not happen to the second. Therefore they are difference instances. Same with human cloning. You can make a perfect clone of me, and that person won't be me, just an identical copy, who from now on will have separate experiences than me. If I die first before the clone is made, it still doesn't make a difference; I am not my clone. Now, if I died first, and a clone is made, you're arguing my information theoretic death is prevented. but nonetheless my clone isn't me. and I can't tell how cryonics preserving my body after I am _dead_, and then repairing my body, is different to cloning. It's basically just cloning but reusing my existing parts, and if that is correct, the revived person is not me. The property is "process continuity" - as long as some of the processes that form "me" at this moment will be present in the next, I will continue to, at least be some part, me; If all the processes are stopped, then any processes after that point are no longer me. I am saying there's a difference between processes running on hardware and the hardware itself. I am the emergent property of all the processes that are running in my body.