X-Message-Number: 24587
From: "David Pizer" <>
Subject: Clone vs ?
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 18:51:27 -0700


Basie said:  "A clone would be very different from a child because some things 
are hardwired."


I don't understand what is meant here.  A child is hardwired and a clone (we 
assume) is hardwired.  What's the point?

----------  further


What I was trying to say is that if a person is trying to cause the survival of 
a dead person by cloning his/her  DNA the resulting person from such cloning 
would be more like an offspring of the dead person than like the actual survival
of the original dead person.  (by actual survival I mean something equivalent 
to if the dead person had not died).


Some people argue that we survive through our offspring.  That is not the type 
of survival I am talking about and is not my first choice for my own survival.  
I want to survive with the continuation of life of my original brain.  That is 
the highest form of survival, and the only type of survival we can have the most
confidence in.

David

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