>>717149306
There is a kind of coin flip, but it’s not about chance in the usual sense. It's about perspective.
Imagine you're Simon, and you're about to be copied. From your point of view, your stream of consciousness continues smoothly, you don’t feel like anything gets interrupted. But once the copy happens, there are now two Simons, each with the same memories and the exact same experience up until the copy.
Both Simons wake up thinking they are the original, because from inside their heads, they are. There’s no way to tell, just by being conscious, whether you ended up in the old body or the new one until you open your eyes. So from your perspective, before the copy, it really does feel like there's a 50/50 chance of "waking up" in one body or the other. That's the coin flip.
I'm probably not explaining it well, but it makes sense if you stop thinking about it in terms of body and think of yourself as a chain of thoughts and experiences. That path continues in both bodies, at the exact same moment. They're both equally Simon. The Simon that ends up on the Arc -is- the Simon that went into the copier.
