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That's "Nature vs. Nurture". The basic structure of the neuronal network in your brain will be the same at birth (mostly - these things are based on chemistry, which means things like concentration gradients and some sheer thermodynamic randomness come into play, and there seems to be evidence that we start experiencing things even before we are born). But the creation of new connections and pruning of unused ones are based on sensory input, which can never be replicated 1:1 - even if you were able to "replay" the experience of a human over the course of 2 decades, you cannot control the internal state of the person at the moment they experience something, which can fundamentally change how one and the same situation will be perceived.
Even if you would create 1000 clones of me, not one of them would result in the same person that i am. That is somewhat of a comforting thought.
Clone 1001 will be implanted with a cyborg brain and massaged to retain a specific shape in its widdle folds, all the way down.
We even tacked on the rest of a programmable nervous system. We based it on the specific shape of yours, as it was in the 10 seconds after your original death, when we zapped you up like a frog at a High School experiment and scanned you down to the electron interactions within you before your meat could begin to decay.
We thought that was pretty good enough, but we figured you also left all this digital trail full of your life experiences behind, so we used those in reinforcement training.
We think we found where the anarchism comes from, by the way. But we didn't want to take it out. We need you to work on the Europa Ice mines, and foment some of that so we can root it out of the wild worker specimens, then we can see about updating you into the proper capitalist frame.
OH, and yes, you're technically an LLM of yourself, but don't think about that too much.
-Some billionaire's wet dream