Would you clone yourself?

[Dimensional Vortex]

Cloning is probably wrong if the Clone can feel emotions and pain like a normal person. I mean if you just had someone break into your house with the police and the man demanded a kidney, but there was nothing you could do to stop it because it was completely legal. You would feel so terrible inside, you would have been bred for farming.

Then again I would like to talk to myself, it would be interesting what the other me thinks of me.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

Cloning is probably wrong if the Clone can feel emotions and pain like a normal person. I mean if you just had someone break into your house with the police and the man demanded a kidney, but there was nothing you could do to stop it because it was completely legal. You would feel so terrible inside, you would have been bred for farming.

Then again I would like to talk to myself, it would be interesting what the other me thinks of me.

 

[rokkolpo]

Harvesting humans is not that YAY in my book.

 

[monkey_man]

Would you want to clone yourself, in case of a lethal disease? Or perhaps just to have another 'you' go to work while you browse the escapist?

THIS
lazyness ftw!

 

[liveslowdiefast]

would do it twice and have a three some with myself.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Are you kidding me? I'm not going through all that again...

 

[bz316]

The only reason I could think to clone myself would be to transfer my brain into a younger clone body, and if we have the mind/machine interface tech required for that I'd just put my brain into an android body...

 

[Nimcha]

I'd create a whole football team worth of clones and have a huge orgy. I'm that sexy.

 

[pulse2]

I'm curious, so I'd say yes, I know my family and friends would be uncomfortable with it, so thats why I wouldn't go ahead with it, but if I was in a field of science without anyone to concern myself with I would. I was thinking this over a month or so ago. How cloned would a clone be? Would they be an exact replica of me? They say your personality and behaviour are formed by the life you lead, so while the clone would look like me, have the same features and allegies etc, there would still be blatant differences. I have scars the clone wouldn't have, my original persona has changed over the years based on who I've met, so that would be different too. There are also emotions and feelings I have endured and learnt to overcome due to dramatic circumstances that the clone wouldn't have expereinced.

So a clone isn't exactly a paste and copy of me, its more of an attempt to be me in my original form, even then we'd still just end up like identical twins with different personalities. The concept fascinates me

 

[jack583]

no
why clone a 6'7" 320lb. man and just use the liver?(or some other organ)
i say this mainly because once the needed item is taken from the clone, it will die.
waste of money.
if you want to clone something. just clone the needed parts.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I'd clone myself, like, a bajillion times and start riots in the streets. I would bring anarchy and destruction to the masses and leave a trail of blood and debris in my wake.

 

[crazyfoxdemon]

The real question is... Would the brain with all its memories be cloned as well?

 

[TilMorrow]

I'm going to attempt in the future to use clones of myself to prolong my existence until I discover the secret/science of eternal life and immortality when I will unfreeze my frozen body to which I will apply this Science/Secret and return my consciousness to its rightful place.

I then plan to begin work on discovering eternal youth and no I'm not patenting my findings.

Or I could do a Mr. House and put myself in a life support system whilst using clones or robots to discover immortality.

Yes. That sounds quite promising.

The real question is... Would the brain with all its memories be cloned as well?

Unless there was a breakthrough in brain wave patterns and telepathy then no probably not. You'd probably have to use something similar to a external hard-drive to carry all your brain's original thoughts and then link it somehow to the clone's brain and make it able to understand. Would require serious brain modification and possibly cybernectics on the clone's brain.

 

[mcpop9]

if it listened to my orders yet was able to function and think on its own, then yes i'd love one.

 

[beeejay]

Absolutely, that would just be amazing.

 

[XT inc]

Of course I would clone myself, Team of me's in multiplayer would me people actually stick to a role and do things cohesively.

 

[snakeakaossi]

You are expecting us to give a 20 page scientific paper if we want to answer all your questions. You know, because of not so trivial things like ethics and the feeling of self. So in no particular order:

- We already have the technology to clone (google 'Dolly'), be it a bit buggy. Humans are just not allowed to be cloned (at least where I live)

- Cloning shouldn't be wrong, but you should be able te object against your cloning. Me for myself would not like the fact that there is another me. If only because he might be angry at me for being the spare part heap.

- Every human life is just as valuable and since the clones come from us, they are human too. I wouldn't want to blur the line in ethics saying : "You can't kill him, but you can kill his clone", that's just wrong.

- Identical twins always try to get their own personality away from the other, clones will do too with their donors. Just a thing to think about.

 

[amadhatter]

Oh, yeah. And kick off the All-Clone Adult Film industry.

 

[UltraDeth]

A clone would be handy for multiplayer

 

[burn e]

Why would I?
Sure I get the appeal of having someone to go to work for you.
But if there's 2 (or more) of me, then who needs me?
I could just aswell be the clone and no one would care.

So no, I prefere to be uniqe.

Also I think the clones would get rid of me, I know I would