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Originally posted by Master_Shake
I'm not really sure that cloning is a method of living forever. Certainly to those on the exterior of your mind, it would appear that you are a constant, but with the destruction of your mind in the first body, you would be left with only a copy of yourself. You would probably notice the difference when your consciousness disappeared or disolved or discombobulated (or whatever happens to consciousness when you die). Not knowing the limits of human consciousness, I would have to balk at such a procedure. Additionally, I wouldn't want to subject future generations to me; I barely fit in society now, I can just imagine how I'll be received in a few hundred years when everybody's blonde and a vegetarian.
There's another post about molecular transportation/reconstruction that explores a similar idea.
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very good points... this is very difficult to explain but look at it this way: your conciousness is your ability to see. (in a way) So right now look at your door or something... now imagine... you die... you can no longer SEE or THINK or FEEL. but there is this new being with a clean-slate mind....
even if he now knows everything you KNEW, you are still dead.
To others, it might seem like he is the same is you, but to YOU, you are still dead (but not gonna complain, because you're DEAD)
by the way, jubal, when you post links you should briefly explain what they are... especially seeing as how these aren't really loading for me.