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What makes you you?
A perfect copy of you could wake up tomorrow with your memories, your habits and your love for your people, certain that it is you.
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Look at a photograph of yourself at seven. That child had different fears, different opinions and handwriting you wouldn't recognize. You still say "that's me" without hesitating, and you'd be hard pressed to say what the "that" refers to.
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