"we can't answer scientifically why your consciousness is bound to you and not the clone" Huh? If you did indeed clone a person's exact state, a perfect atom-b

"we can't answer scientifically why your consciousness is bound to you and not the clone" Huh? If you did indeed clone a person's exact state, a perfect atom-by-atom up-to-the-microsecond copy of an actual living person, the consciousness would copy over as well. Obviously, for technical and perhaps ethical reasons we have not done this experiment, but I don't think there would be much doubt that scientists would expect the apparent consciousness to be duplicated just like everything else. It is all just biochemical process and atomic state. Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon from (currently) animal brains, if they're complex enough. Your talk of it being "bound" to anything is misguided, and the controversies you allude to simply don't exist. You might as well say that science can't explain why light is "bound" to a light bulb. Consciousness is a more complex phenomenon, certainly, but the principle is the same.