The transporter question, the “backup” question, are only difficult if you take the body to be the “vessel of the soul”, but it isn’t.
The body creates the soul, or even better, the soul is a normal process of the body.
You say that there’s no way to tell which is you from the outside. There’s also no way to tell from the inside.
Imagine a copy is made of you while you’re sleeping. When you awake, how would you tell which you were? Your only chance would be to find out what happened to your two bodies while you were sleeping, to look for external clues.
I posit that there is a way of telling whether I am. And if I am no longer, that status would stop. Whether someone else someplace else thinks they are I at that point is irrelevant in that regard at that point if I have stopped being.
The transporter question, the “backup” question, are only difficult if you take the body to be the “vessel of the soul”, but it isn’t.
The body creates the soul, or even better, the soul is a normal process of the body.
You say that there’s no way to tell which is you from the outside. There’s also no way to tell from the inside.
Imagine a copy is made of you while you’re sleeping. When you awake, how would you tell which you were? Your only chance would be to find out what happened to your two bodies while you were sleeping, to look for external clues.
I posit that there is a way of telling whether I am. And if I am no longer, that status would stop. Whether someone else someplace else thinks they are I at that point is irrelevant in that regard at that point if I have stopped being.