Okay. Interesting answers so far.
So if they make a copy of you on Mars and destroy the one on Earth, the one on Mars is you.
Fair enough.
Now let me rephrase Sledge's question:
What if they copied you in the same way, but this time, they didn't destroy the original?
Would you both be you?
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