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Monday, February 23, 2009

Would Your Clone Be an Exact Replica of You?

It would, only at conception; and even then maybe not.

1. The development of the fetus.

It is unlikely in the extreme that the development of the fetus post-conception would be at any way similar to your own, given the conditions involved. Your clone would be carried in a host-mother who is completely different to your own; even if carried in your own mother’s womb, the time period involved would be different. The conditions the host-mother lives through would be different, also the foods she eats, the medications she takes, the people she associates with, her health, her “biological clock”, etc., would all be different.

2. The birth of the baby.

The likelihood of birth under the same conditions as yourself is quite unlikely. First, the medical staff that was present at your birth is quite probably not available now. Second, your clone’s birth will probably be taking place in a different delivery room; indeed, even a different hospital. Third, the environmental conditions of the hospital will have changed, inasmuch as the concept of sterile conditions have changed over time.

3. The conditions under which the child is raised.

Time has passed in the world, and changes in the environment have occurred; also, changes in society. There is literally no possible way to duplicate the conditions in which you were raised. Everything changes in time; the arts have changed, technology has changed, religion has changed, philosophy has changed, medicine has changed, even food has changed. To reproduce your own conditions, you would have to go back in time; and even if it were possible, you would be changing your own past.

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