If you raised 2 test tube clones in the exact same enviorment..?

Question

Would they make a different choice when they were finally given variety? I will be more specific.

They each have theyre own identical room, they never see anyone, a robot feeds them and even tends to them in while they are in theyre test tubes. They have never had any interactions with anything but the room and the robot. They are both fed the exact same meals the exact same time a day by the exactly the same robot. Born at exactly the same time etc.

But then one day you give them a choice, when you bring them there food, theyre is 3 different meals in 3 different trays, which one will they go to first? Will the clone in the other room make the exact same decision? And if it did, you do this again and again, do you think eventually they would make a different decision? I think so, what do you think?

If they did make a different decision that proves we our more than genetics and products of our environment. So then what does that prove we have a soul or theyre is some

Answer 1

i think they would make different choices.

but i dont think this proves anything- with food it just chance, a random coincidence- they'll take wateva they find more appealing or will take one at random because they wont know wat to choose.

Answer 2

there are already studies like this: observations of separated twins; for the most part, separated twins tend to like the same foods...so your clones would more likely choose the same foods offered to them--furthermore, food preferences are socially learned...so if you're going on nothing but "nature" i'm pretty sure your clones would choose the same.

Answer 3

A very interesting question. I think that random physical events (such as cosmic radiation) and random  mutations when the clones grow will create two distinctive beings. Although they look like each other and probabily will behave like each other, they have their own consience. Besides Chaos Theory states that small (random) variations have increasingly larger effects. I think the decisions are therefore random.