05-28-2009, 02:19 PM
Maybe the question isn't whether or not something is destroyed, but whether or not bringing back the replica is as good as bringing back the original. You died, sure, your atoms got scattered to the winds, but yet here you are again, good as new, like nothing ever happened. Is it "you" again? Why not? If you are just a brain, then recreating that brain to the finest detail is recreating you.