So, if you were able to make an exact copy of yourself...

[JTsyo]

Ben Bova's Orion series

Wow I read that in HS. Don't think I ever finished the series though.

 

[pauldun170]

Another thread, as well as a book I read many years ago, got me thinking deep philosophical thoughts again.

Let's say the technology is there to make an EXACT copy of yourself. And you do so, and IMMEDIATELY upon the copy being made, your "old self" is executed while unconscious.

So, in that scenario, aren't you still alive?

Let me google that for you
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13437/in-star-trek-does-the-original-die-in-teleportation

 

[Oyeve]

If you have sex with your duplicate self, does that make you gay?

 

[Sonikku]

The more important question would be am I the Evil Sonikku or the Good Sonikku?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

This is pretty much the core theme behind the game Soma, which delves into it a fair bit.

Short answer: One of you loses the coin flip, and doesn't survive.

 

[zinfamous]

You're worse than Hal. Mane and Naer rank higher.

I assumed that SaltyNuts was just one of the many long-dormant troll personalities of the same dude that posts under neckbeard/Hal, mayne, Naer, fleabag, and possibly RossMAN.

 

[deustroop]

No need to go deep here.
You can clone dogs. If the original dies you still have the twin/copy. Is it the original ? IMV, without a severe lobotomy, one could never consider it the original even tho it is identical in all ways. It is what it is, regardless how you want to construe it.

 

[Majes]

Read some Peter F. Hamilton.
Has some fantastic stuff and very much integrates this idea into his science fiction.