Ryan asked:

Eliminating the soul. If two people (twins clones whatever) share the exact same experiences would
they be the same person?

Any "no" or contrasted answers to this question would be greatly appreciated.

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No, they would not. For apart from being souls, they are also objects, and as such they cannot pursue
the identical trajectory in spacetime. This is not contradicted by those rare instances of twin bodies
being joined to each other, like the twins who recently made the headlines. At the microscopic level,
for all that they may have shared the same genes, implementation (or translation) will produce
(large-scale) errors on an individual cell by cell basis, and by that fact alone, even clones would differ
from each other at least in the way they suffer the same experiences. It is possible, perhaps, that
subjectively the two may believe in the identity of their shared experiences. But I doubt it: for at the
very least the case I alluded to shows that their experience of right and left must be incompatible.

Jürgen Lawrenz

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