Comment by gf000

Well, if you were to magically make an exact replica of a person, wouldn't it be conscious and at time 0 be the same person?

But later on, he would get different experiences and become a different person no longer identical to the first.

In extension, I would argue that magically "translating" a person to another medium (e.g. a chip) would still make for the same person, initially.

Though the word "magic" does a lot of work here.