I don’t ask you to accept that the various post-fork copies are the same person as each other, only that each is (perhaps non-transitively) the same person as the single pre-fork copy.
Suppose I don’t fork myself, but lock myself in a cage. Does the absence of an uncaged copy matter?
I don’t ask you to accept that the various post-fork copies are the same person as each other, only that each is (perhaps non-transitively) the same person as the single pre-fork copy.
Suppose I don’t fork myself, but lock myself in a cage. Does the absence of an uncaged copy matter?