[Spoiler] Brain scan question.

[norwegianboyee]

When you get copied there is always the original, and the copy, so you actually have two consciences, just depends which one you view it from.
In the game you play from Simon-3's perspective.

If it were actually possible in reality, and you copied your brain, you would always "lose", because you are the original. But another copy of you would be created who thinks he is you who carried over.

Hmm yeah.. So basically if we play from the perspective of Simon-3 like you said. You would have all the memories of the "original" Simon's you were before, But at the same time it would feel like you would always be the "winner" in that you were the one that kept going after the scan instead of for example be the one rotting away in Omicron.

So it's kind of like we have all these different Simon's inside ourself, but when the clone is created he goes his own way. The reason i'm saying the clones are not us is because we are our CONSCIENCE, even if they behave exactly the same and think they are us they would have an different conscience seeing as multiple versions of yourself can live at the same time.

Dissimilar to an hive mind the Simon's will go their own path and be a different conscience even if they have exactly the same memories as we did up to that point. It reminds me of psychology classes when we studied twins with exactly the same genes, yet they could turn out completely different based on their environment. If one experienced slightly different stimuli they could change dramatically even if some personality traits and looks were fundamentally alike.

This also makes me think about the topic of conscience itself... It seems like conscience is created as the brain (aka cortex chip) of an person is activated. The brain must be or inherit the conscience somehow... grah this damn Soma game really made me twist my mind.