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The_vagabond7 said:

If a scientist told you that he had always wanted to kill somebody just to watch him die, and he wants to pay you a thousand dollars to kill you. He says not to worry because he has a sample of your DNA, and a really awesome computer that he will use to record the exact position of all the electrons in your brain before you die, and he will simply make an exact copy of you the moment before he shot you in the face, would you take the thousand dollars and do it? Do you think you'd be getting a good deal out of this? When he's holding the gun to your face asking if you're really sure you want to go through with it do you tell him "it's no prob, I'll be back in a jiffy"? Do you expect to wake up?

If the answer to any of those is "no" then you too think that you are more than just the chemicals that compose your brain, you think that you are the continuity of the chemicals and electrons that compose your brain.

how does he know he's not asleep already?

this could all be a dream...or we could be in the Matrix right now...would we really know?