[brhsagain]

Thought experiment: what if you copied and restored the backup into two bodies, and both bodies were a state continuation of the original? Would the two existences be simultaneously the smae person? I think it would make more sense to say that at the moment of cloning the two bodies are separate consciousnesses with the same state.

In your analogy, if you copied the VM state onto two different host systems, I would think each host system would be a separate conscious experience. It's whatever being a host system is that generates consciousness, not the state itself.

[netsharc]

I'm sure there's been movies about the scenario.. But yeah, it'd be weird to look at another person and he thinks he's me. It'd be hard to look from the outside at my copy and think "That's me, with all my knowledge and my thought processes", but.. it'd be the case.