Programmers can answer all existential questions with ease

  • candyman337
    link
    fedilink
    15
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    The real answer btw is no, cloned animals aren’t identical to their original, same base traits, but for example in cows spot position will be different

    Also unless you can copy their memories, they just won’t be the same person.

    And then they’d have two different life experiences and would immediately begin to differ.

    • andrew_bidlaw
      link
      fedilink
      711 months ago

      And we also change every milisecond. How long this process takes? It may seem irrelevant but copy of you 5 seconds ago is not you now. It’s your restored back up.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        411 months ago

        Unless your pause execution of the original or there’s an ongoing synchronization during the cloning process

        • andrew_bidlaw
          link
          fedilink
          111 months ago

          Sync would lag anyway, I think, if we are pedantic.

          Pausing the execution of the original via execution solves the problem of who’s original here tho. One’s still functioning.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            311 months ago

            Well it depends on the method of sync… Doing it through updates would lag, but what if it was through something like quantum effects, or even by treating both bodies and brains like a contiguous organism until the cloning is complete? Like with a cell dividing, there’s no original

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      111 months ago

      So it’s kind of like the moment of inception is the memory reference, and they won’t ever be the same?

      • candyman337
        link
        fedilink
        111 months ago

        They’re now two people who will love two different lives, they will naturally begin to diverge