I think the first of those approximates my view, just with the added caveat that your consciousness is “something”, since we use the word to describe some aspect of our experience even if we don’t fully understand it, and if there’s no physical basis for anything to have been lost in this process because the copy is the same, that implies to me that your consciousness must have been preserved or recreated as well.
I think the first of those approximates my view, just with the added caveat that your consciousness is “something”, since we use the word to describe some aspect of our experience even if we don’t fully understand it, and if there’s no physical basis for anything to have been lost in this process because the copy is the same, that implies to me that your consciousness must have been preserved or recreated as well.