You are overthinking this imho. Death is just a word that can be defined in multiple ways by reasonable people, so you can define duplicating yourself as not dying if you want. Doesn’t mean other people will agree. Another person could legitimately say that dying is when their original organic body stops working, that is equally legitimate definition. Deciding to have duplicates built is a decision not a definitional thing, you can subscribe to the latter definition of death and still want to have duplicates of yourself either electronic or organic. I think a lot of the confusion around this subject comes from religious times, and duality style thinking. We are just physical objects at the end of the day and of course we can create near duplicates of any physical object and say they are fungible if we want.
You are overthinking this imho. Death is just a word that can be defined in multiple ways by reasonable people, so you can define duplicating yourself as not dying if you want. Doesn’t mean other people will agree. Another person could legitimately say that dying is when their original organic body stops working, that is equally legitimate definition. Deciding to have duplicates built is a decision not a definitional thing, you can subscribe to the latter definition of death and still want to have duplicates of yourself either electronic or organic. I think a lot of the confusion around this subject comes from religious times, and duality style thinking. We are just physical objects at the end of the day and of course we can create near duplicates of any physical object and say they are fungible if we want.