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Imagine these two scenarios. You take the current state of your mind and replicate it to form another mind (biological or not), while simultaneously destroying the original. Now compare this process to something a little more subtle but with exactly the same affect: Slowly replacing parts of you mind with artificial components that behave exactly as the original biological components (instead of replacing the entire mind at once, doing it piecewise by destroying parts and replacing with new parts. Interestingly this is what our mind goes through naturally). Most would say that the latter would result in a seamless transition that the mind would not notice whereas the former would certainly be noticed and not as seamless. Why should these two processes be experienced in two different ways when in fact they are essentially identical?