Yes, they are absolutely the same people.
No, they aren't. Their bodies (genes) and names are the same but no more.
It doesn't make any difference.. so what?
I can't vote because...
"It's his eyes, Roland thought. They were wide and terrible, the eyes of a dragon in human form" - Roland seeing the Crimson King for the first time.
"When the King comes and the Tower falls, sai, all such pretty things as yours will be broken. Then there will be darkness and nothing but the howl of Discordia and the cries of the can toi" - From Song of Susannah