More hogwash. The moment such a cloning happens, you'd become two distinct individuals and would immediately diverge into having separate experiences. Science w

More hogwash. The moment such a cloning happens, you'd become two distinct individuals and would immediately diverge into having separate experiences. Science would not at all consider you the same thing. I'm talking about one time slice: the moment at which the cloning took place. You can argue that a zero-width time slice doesn't really exist, but we're in "meta-science" (which is philosophy and not science) here. For that matter, there's no such thing as a pure kilogram of iron. Two seemingly "identical" objects are almost certainly not identical at the atomic level. My point is that most science operates under the metascientific assumption that two physically identical objects are identical, and while this may be philosophically wrong regarding matters of consciousness, it's a damn good/useful assumption to make when you want to reason about, say, chemical reactions. Science would say there are no two distinct and separate consciousnesses. No it wouldn't. That's scientism, which is inherently speculative. Science says nothing about consciousness. Cognition is a different animal; that can be observed. And we very well know consciousness is bound to your brain. More scientism.