If it is truly impossible to break symmetry you could argue that there isn’t a clone and you are in fact the same. I.e. there is just one instance of you, it just looks like there are two. After all if you are absolutely identical including the universe in what sense are there two of you? Upon further thought, you couldn’t tell if a perfectly translational clone was a clone at all, or just a perfect mirror/force field. There would be no way to tell. If you put you hand out to touch the mirror, or your mirror hand, if it was perfectly aligned you would not feel texture, but instead an infinitely hard surface. There would be no rubbing of your fingers against the clone, no way to tell if there was a perfect mirror, or another copy.
correct! i’ve tried to use this symmetry argument (“how do you know you’re not the clone?”) over the years to explain the multiverse: https://youtu.be/29AgSo6KOtI?t=869
If it is truly impossible to break symmetry you could argue that there isn’t a clone and you are in fact the same. I.e. there is just one instance of you, it just looks like there are two. After all if you are absolutely identical including the universe in what sense are there two of you? Upon further thought, you couldn’t tell if a perfectly translational clone was a clone at all, or just a perfect mirror/force field. There would be no way to tell. If you put you hand out to touch the mirror, or your mirror hand, if it was perfectly aligned you would not feel texture, but instead an infinitely hard surface. There would be no rubbing of your fingers against the clone, no way to tell if there was a perfect mirror, or another copy.
correct! i’ve tried to use this symmetry argument (“how do you know you’re not the clone?”) over the years to explain the multiverse: https://youtu.be/29AgSo6KOtI?t=869