I cannot be cloned

The identity of clones and what it tells us about the self

If I clone myself what relation does the clone have to me? And what does this tell me about what makes me – me? My clone is not my self. It will be different in personality, cognition, as well as its place in space-time. This difference can help us to assert, away from the materialistic picture of identity, that we are not simply our genes. This should impact our moral and social thinking about the dangers of cloning, which remain troublesome, writes Kathinka Evers.

 

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The fact that a clone would not be identical - in social or even in some very minor genetic ways - does not making this technology any less radical or potentially dangerous. Sexual reproduction is a way in which species can avoid genetic disorders, create different versions of the type. We are interfering with processes which have developed over millions of years with only a tiny knowledge of what we are doing, and almost zero knowledge of the consequences.