Thursday, July 23, 2015

Mind Transfer? (part 4)


It has always interested me that cloning in science fiction seems to assume that clones will be mental copies of the source. Clones are essentially twins, and we know twins, though similar, are unique individuals with their own separate experiences and personalities. If we could actually copy a person's "brain print," though, perhaps clones would also be mental copies of the source, at least up to the point of copying. From that point, experiences would diverge and the copy might end up a different person entirely, given time. Considering all this, copying ourselves might be possible, though the original source would continue and eventually die separately. The copy, unless somehow engineered to be younger, would probably not exist much longer either.

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