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Thought about memories and their role on cloning
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon an interesting thought (at least for me) while I was driving.
Let's see if I can explain it well. Also, I couldn't find a suitable name for this thread.
Let's imagine an hypothetical situation, where an 8 years old children drowns in the pool. The father is in chock, but a man gets in contact with him and tells him that he can "create" another children, an exact copy of the kid that drowned. That includes memories, genetic data and all sorts of habits and preferences the kid had before dying.
Is the "new kid" the same has the one that drowned? This might seem an easy answer question, but take a deeper look at it.
The "new kid" has all the memories, that includes the memories of the drowning. Can he accept death, if the dad tells him what happened?
This subject also makes me wonder if a clone really is a copy of someone, because memories will not be the same. But do memories play an important role in this?
Tell me your opinions, and If you have more questions related to this subject please post them. I want to have a deeper view on this (if possible) and for that to happen I need your opinions.
Let's see if I can explain it well. Also, I couldn't find a suitable name for this thread.
Let's imagine an hypothetical situation, where an 8 years old children drowns in the pool. The father is in chock, but a man gets in contact with him and tells him that he can "create" another children, an exact copy of the kid that drowned. That includes memories, genetic data and all sorts of habits and preferences the kid had before dying.
Is the "new kid" the same has the one that drowned? This might seem an easy answer question, but take a deeper look at it.
The "new kid" has all the memories, that includes the memories of the drowning. Can he accept death, if the dad tells him what happened?
This subject also makes me wonder if a clone really is a copy of someone, because memories will not be the same. But do memories play an important role in this?
Tell me your opinions, and If you have more questions related to this subject please post them. I want to have a deeper view on this (if possible) and for that to happen I need your opinions.
Watch the 6th Day. They did quite well on the concept of cloning. Also Arnold Shwarzenegger, His Clone, and his stunt double is pretty good. Or watch Moon, you'll get an idea what it's like when a seclusive clone gets in contact with himself.
Also why would it be traumatising if you were dead and then cloned and brought back to life, knowing you are a clone of your original self that obviously died. If I were a clone I would be thinking well I'm still here.
Also being philosophical aksing Who am I? What am I? You would be a dumbass. Because you know what you are especially if all previous thought was transferred. The only thing they should be wondering is if their memories are the original not some copy from the original because if it werent the original memory and just the copy of the memory, things could go wrong.
I also don't think Reproducing as clones would be a good idea, I'm not sure why, but something is telling me that it isn't a good idea for down the road.
Also why would it be traumatising if you were dead and then cloned and brought back to life, knowing you are a clone of your original self that obviously died. If I were a clone I would be thinking well I'm still here.
Also being philosophical aksing Who am I? What am I? You would be a dumbass. Because you know what you are especially if all previous thought was transferred. The only thing they should be wondering is if their memories are the original not some copy from the original because if it werent the original memory and just the copy of the memory, things could go wrong.
I also don't think Reproducing as clones would be a good idea, I'm not sure why, but something is telling me that it isn't a good idea for down the road.
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