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have you ever seen that movie multipicity? very funny, but that is beside the point. there is a part of the movie that kind of blew me away when i watched it and i want to know what you think:
the main character went to the geneticist to get the clone made of himself, and the geneticist had to put him to sleep to do it. when he awoke, he says something like, "So, where is it? where's the clone?" then the doctor says, "Youre the clone." So the clone had to live out in the shed while the real him lived inside his house and got to keep the wife and what-not.
the whole concept of going in to create a clone and then in a sense "becoming" the clone was very interesting to me. i suppose it has to do with memory, because the clone and the original will have identical memories and at the point of awakening pretty close to the exact states of mind, until their different experiences begin to alter them to be different. so, at one point, one brief moment, their brain-states are exactly the same, a feat that basically impossible to duplicate in any scenario but this. the clone remembers being the original, but sadly is not. luckily for the original, he stayed who he was. its a kind of weird scenario, isn't it? to sort of "become" someone else. again, the clone essentially was born with the same memory as the original, so though he never did any of the things he thought he had previously, he had the illusion of them in his memory. i think that this is wrong, because it is sort of like the ultimate lie to a person.
if you ever go to get a clone made of yourself someday, you should probably remember before you go in that you may just wake up the clone, and be in a world of trouble.
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