Your being cloned didn't create another "you." It created a twin of you, albeit ex-utero, post-natally, and after your death. It's only the timing and the whole post-natal thing that creates the illusion of your clone/twin actually being you.
But it's not you any more than two identical twins are one person. You and your clone merely identical essences the same way two identical twins do. You don't share the clone's consciousness and it doesn't share yours. Each of you has unique subjectivity.
Suppose you don't die. You still exist. And now your clone/twin does too.
It merely happens, for the briefest of moments, to share identical memories and an identical personality with you. It can never occupy your physical space, i.e. occupy a physical space at the same time as you. That means it can NEVER experience the world ExACTLY as you. Everything it sees will be from a different angle than you. It's the same exclusion for all other senses. It has a memory of coming into consciousness -- one you have NO memory of.
Over time, its different physical space and different experiences will make it increasingly divergent from you. Over time, your clone/twin becomes a distinctly different personality, just as two conventional identical twins come to share only half of their personalities with each other.
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