At 12:01 AM 8/11/05 -1000, David wrote:
Until men have created life from non-living matter, you can't say that they've "created life" by cloning another living thing. They simply reproduced an existing living thing using a more high-tech way of triggering growth and providing nourishment than nature uses.
Still, we've added Jim to our top-secret "clone this person" list so that he'll have more time to make fractals! ;-)
But if it's top-secret, how will I know that I've been cloned? Will I suddenly find myself in two places at once? If I don't experience being inside my clone, then the clone will not really be me. And if it's not really me, how can you be sure the clone will be obsessed with fractals like I am. What if my 'clone' hates math and fractals? What a waste of effort! Jim (not yet a clone) M.