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Rant I: Human/People Cloning and Transferring one's "Soul"
15 years ago
I think I'll start doing these random journals on my thoughts in a variety of different or random topics.
Cloning is an act of playing god; making life against natural means. (not that I believe in the typical god much anyway)
If you were to be cloned, you won't be you, you will be dead if you die, and your cloned self will continue to live on while you're left behind to rot underground (or be spread over the ground as ashes ... or do something in heaven, somewhere along those lines anyway). Your clone will probably keep getting himself in the future, to let "you" live on, without you actually being the host of the body.
A clone of yourself would not possess your soul, and thus acts completely against what you want to do, he might have your knowledge, behaviour, consciousness, your look, and so on. Basically, when you die and ask to be cloned, you will not be achieving anything except for having a kind of "child" in which you're practically an identical twin to him who died at his birth from the test tube.
Unless there was a way to move a "soul" or "consciousness" from one body to another... I'd pass.
Otherwise... I'd love to see the evolution of a dying world. Live in the shadows for countless years, moving my soul from one body to a new one each time the old one dies.
As some people (not mentioning names in particular) say, the human body is just a shell for the soul, and these people would prefer not to be in this shell. Wouldn't you love it if there was a way to get out of the shell into another one?
Perhaps transplanting the brain could carry the "soul"? But then, even an old aged brain will still die.
The game "EVE Online" makes heavy use of cloning, instead of "respawning" or being "revived" when killed, your clone (as in, you're character is always a clone) somehow sends it's (your) soul across the universe to enter a new dedicated clone (or shell, body, etc.) The concept is interesting.
Cloning is an act of playing god; making life against natural means. (not that I believe in the typical god much anyway)
If you were to be cloned, you won't be you, you will be dead if you die, and your cloned self will continue to live on while you're left behind to rot underground (or be spread over the ground as ashes ... or do something in heaven, somewhere along those lines anyway). Your clone will probably keep getting himself in the future, to let "you" live on, without you actually being the host of the body.
A clone of yourself would not possess your soul, and thus acts completely against what you want to do, he might have your knowledge, behaviour, consciousness, your look, and so on. Basically, when you die and ask to be cloned, you will not be achieving anything except for having a kind of "child" in which you're practically an identical twin to him who died at his birth from the test tube.
Unless there was a way to move a "soul" or "consciousness" from one body to another... I'd pass.
Otherwise... I'd love to see the evolution of a dying world. Live in the shadows for countless years, moving my soul from one body to a new one each time the old one dies.
As some people (not mentioning names in particular) say, the human body is just a shell for the soul, and these people would prefer not to be in this shell. Wouldn't you love it if there was a way to get out of the shell into another one?
Perhaps transplanting the brain could carry the "soul"? But then, even an old aged brain will still die.
The game "EVE Online" makes heavy use of cloning, instead of "respawning" or being "revived" when killed, your clone (as in, you're character is always a clone) somehow sends it's (your) soul across the universe to enter a new dedicated clone (or shell, body, etc.) The concept is interesting.
A cloned living creature as such is probably just like making an incredibly powerful Artificial Intelligence - with no use.
And about transferring the brain, isn't that what sends the dying signal or something, so if you were to put it in a host body, it would kill it?