Is Sarang a complete idiot?

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Or did he just not take Computer Science classes as a kid? Or anything remotely based on real science for that matter? If he did, he'd know that cut-and-paste and copy-and-paste both copy the original.

He and his followers should've changed their motto to "We put our faith in the reality of cut-n-pastey!", seeing as they tried doing that IRL.

I guess you've skipped all the notes in the game and just went through it? Sarang explicitly mentioned that a copy will be identical or very close to the original right after the process and/or short after. But with time the difference in experience will alter the development of their conspicuousness, of their self, thus there won't be any more two similar copies.

No, I've read all the notes. He then starts babbling about the reality of continuity and other pseudo-religious nonsense. That's probably the only bit of his ramblings that make sense; as far as two copies having different experiences and eventually separating from each other.

I mean, as long as his copy knows 'my other self killed himself at theta nd I'm actually a copy, not him, he's dead' and he has no illusions then I guess he's an okay guy. Like I said, that's why I like Catherine as a character because despite her questionable opinions on sentience and treating her fellow robots, she knew exactly what she was getting into with copying consciousnesses onto the ARK.