06-03-2014, 04:22 AM
If everything has a little awareness, then so do carrots. It's known as Carrot Theory....
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When you clone yourself, you take the DNA out of one of your cells in the form of a nucleus and place it into an egg that has had it's nucleus removed. You implant that into a surrogate womb and grow a new being with your genetic make up, but that is all. There is no memory, experience or soul replication. It's like in 'The Boy's From Brazil'. They all had Hitlers's genes, but Dr. Mengele had to manipulate their environments and upbringing to try to make another Hitler.
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Yes. I was speculating that the day might come, when science and technology had progressed to a point where we could be manufactured from scratch, from the atomic or sub-atomic level. A part of that would be building the brain, exactly as the one being copied. That would mean having the same memories. You would expect it to do and say the same things. But whereas I know I exist, would this? There are some pretty clever gadgets about -but even if they can knock me over at chess, I tend to think they have no self-awareness. So at what point would this awareness pop up? I appreciate that it may be a year or two before this can be tested - it is the question which intrigues me.
Re your tree, have people taken seeds and tried to propagate it?
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When you clone yourself, you take the DNA out of one of your cells in the form of a nucleus and place it into an egg that has had it's nucleus removed. You implant that into a surrogate womb and grow a new being with your genetic make up, but that is all. There is no memory, experience or soul replication. It's like in 'The Boy's From Brazil'. They all had Hitlers's genes, but Dr. Mengele had to manipulate their environments and upbringing to try to make another Hitler.
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Yes. I was speculating that the day might come, when science and technology had progressed to a point where we could be manufactured from scratch, from the atomic or sub-atomic level. A part of that would be building the brain, exactly as the one being copied. That would mean having the same memories. You would expect it to do and say the same things. But whereas I know I exist, would this? There are some pretty clever gadgets about -but even if they can knock me over at chess, I tend to think they have no self-awareness. So at what point would this awareness pop up? I appreciate that it may be a year or two before this can be tested - it is the question which intrigues me.
Re your tree, have people taken seeds and tried to propagate it?