Tell me your opinion on cloning a human

Question

I don't want to know whether you think it is ethical or against God's will. What I want to know is your theory if a human is cloned, once that clone reaches adulthood, would they not only look identical to the original but would they have the same memories as the original or perhaps a similar personality.

Also consider that identical twins are a type of clone and identical twins often have similar ways of speaking, dressing and similar personalities.

Answer 1

no I don't think they would share the same memories. they would not be exactly the same because our experiences also help form the people we become. and yes, I think it should be done. why not? as long as everyone remembers the clone is a person too with exactly the same rights as any other human being.  

Answer 2

No, I like the uniqueness of humanity, cloning would lead to developing 'perfect humans', then we have a race unto itself. The randomness of mating, and genes put together limit the amount of 'bad genes' dominating.  

Answer 3

The same memories no, since the conditions under which the original and the clone where raised the possibility for similar personality's exists but I doubt it will happen.

Twins grow up together that makes a difference.

I had a crappy child hood, it would be interesting to cloning my self and see how I turn out under different conditions.

Answer 4

A clone is a physiologically identical 'being' to the parent from which it came. It would look identical, sound identical, have the same color eyes, same height/weight and propensities as the 'parent'.

However, for it to be expected to have the same memories, thinking processes and so on is preposterous. It would be born as a baby, and grow as the parent did. Since a human being is not defined simply by one or two metrics, the clone would grow under very different conditions than the parent did.

Now, if the exact same parents, same era, same everything were provided for this clone to grow up in, then it could be expected to be identical in thinking and behavior, but since this cannot ever be reproduced, the clone would have different thinking, personality and possibly mannerisms.

The clone would 'tend' to be immune from the same diseases the parent....to a degree, assuming any environmental influences are not accounted for. In other words, just because the parent didn't contract cancer doesn't mean the clone could be subjected to higher-risk cancer sources (than the parent of course) and be expected to be immune.

The growth and development of a human is extremely complicated and there are myriad influences taking place in the psyche of a person at any given time. One more or one less could cause great differences later in life.

The affinity for likes/dislikes would probably have a framework in the clone, but again.....different times, different era, different external influences would sway that in various ways around a centroid of that of the parent.

Answer 5

Your details remind me of a book i read,The Host,where these souls entered these human bodies so the human would be gone but the soul would still have all the humans memories and talents. It was a very good book! lol=]

Answer 6

there are also epigenetic differences between original and clone that might send the clone really out of whack.  there have been some problems with clones and premature aging.

in my opinion its a losing bargain.  it looks and sounds all cool, but what we'll end up getting is well below the costs.

stick to high-risk-high-return science like invisibility formulas, cancer curealls, time machines, matter transporters, and the like.

Answer 7

environment factors affects a lot unless you prototype the environment of the original