Thread: Why is cloning "profoundly wrong"?

yes, that is exactly the kind of lectures i was sitting in. as usual, we were having the lecture because something went horribly wrong and now we have to all be "re-educated".

anyhow, i studied quantum science back at university, very interesting stuff, one of the only times i really got to use my math degree

anyhow, the particular problem before us has actually been discussed, at length, by a physicist named Krauss in a book he wrote ten or fifteen years ago, and he concluded that duplicating a functioning human brain in any given state (say, a copy of mine, at this moment, thinking thoughts about cloning and telling my fingers to type) it utterly impossible by virtue of the HUP and other related principles.

he also brings up the very relevant point that duplicating the neurons and eletrical charges, even in the minutest detail, may very well NOT make a brain that's having the same thoughts or even one that works at all. we don't have that knowledge yet, and might never.

Originally Posted by smokelaw1

Argh...HR lectures? I recently took some revolving around "A manager's duty...Sexual harassment in the workplace." And let me tell you, those people can NOT take a joke.

Hahah. they sent you straight from that class to the Afirmative Action class?

Originally Posted by smokelaw1

"A manager's duty...Sexual harassment in the workplace."

I thought it was a perk of being management, not a duty.

Originally Posted by smokelaw1

OK, back to cloning...I want a bunch ( a troop, a gaggle? What is a group of clones called?)

A division?