Both copies are the real me in the same way a cloned git repo is the same project. If they diverge but still consider themselves the same project, they are in fact the same project. They would just have some differences on top of a base sameness.
Exactly. There’s a sense in which they are structurally the same, a sense in which you can say their identity is the same or very similar, but they are different instances. And in terms of instance they are easy to distinguish, and that is sufficient to dispense with many philosophical riddles that depend on asking which copy is “real”.
Both copies are the real me in the same way a cloned git repo is the same project. If they diverge but still consider themselves the same project, they are in fact the same project. They would just have some differences on top of a base sameness.
That is how I think of it anyway.
Exactly. There’s a sense in which they are structurally the same, a sense in which you can say their identity is the same or very similar, but they are different instances. And in terms of instance they are easy to distinguish, and that is sufficient to dispense with many philosophical riddles that depend on asking which copy is “real”.