In “Of Identity and Diversity,” John Locke explains the theory of sameness: “When therefore we demand whether anything be the SAME or no, it refers always to something that existed such a time in such a place, which it was certain,at that instant, was the same with itself, and no other.” Considering this, Ash and Ash 2.0 are not the same. By Locke's definition there is no "partially the same" or "the same with a few differences." As I mentioned previously, Ash 2.0 was created in a bath tub while (assumedly) Ash was born from a woman; Locke claims, “One thing cannot have two beginnings of existence, nor two things one beginning; it being impossible for two things of the same kind to be or exist in the same instant, in the very same place; or one and the same thing in different places.” Ash and Ash 2.0 did not exist at the same time, but they are two entirely different individuals because of their separate creations.
Ash 2.0 recited many parts of Ash's existence, but nothing about him was authentically Ash. Ash 2.0's organs (body) and soul coincide, and they are unique to him. With the technology displayed in Be Right Back (and 2015 in general), parts of us will never disappear: we have left marks in the technological world that will never be erased. That is not to say if they are harnessed we can be recreated. Because of the unique relationship between body and soul, and our distinctive creation and existence, no replica will ever be the same.
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