Interesting (or perhaps, silly) Philosophical Question

[Potable_Toe]

wfz said:

TadpoleJackson said:
You are the original body. The other one is just exactly the same. Your soul won't switch bodies. You just get a cool guy to play videogames with

That's the only reasonable answer I can think of. But then that begs the question of whether we actually have souls or if that's a man-made construct. 

If we don't have souls, what makes us who we are? What makes us wake up in this body? If we do have souls... what the hell are these souls?

I'm not religious and these questions drive my brain crazy

In my eyes the soul is simply the consciousness tied to a body or indeed housed within the body in the case of the 'traditional' soul. In otherwords, in the proposed scenario the thing that seperates you from your clone is that the your conscious hasn't been recreated, a new albeit identical one would have simply manifested within it.