Is it chilling? I was already going to stay where I am, whether I made a copy or not. Sharding off a replica to go on for me would be strictly better than not doing that

I think it's both for me, which I think is what you might be saying as well. I would absolutely push the button to create the copy, or whatever, because I think I would derive satisfaction from creating a life (identical to mine, no less) that was free of the circumstance I was in, which must have been dire. However, I definitely don't consider that instance "me" even if I do consider the copy a legitimate, separate version of "me", so I don't feel that I have perpetuated my own instance, leaving me in whatever fight-or-flight terror I was in to cause the scenario in the first place.

What do you mean he wasn't so lucky, after all he lived out his live in Toronto. That he did a brain scan at some point of his life doesn't matter. Sucks for the robot who thought he was him.