2006-07-28 11:24:33 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Memories and thought patterns are a product of brain formation. As the brain stores information, the dendrites of your brain's neurons make specific connections more strongly than others, according to events you perceive and your reaction to those events.
A clonse would have your DNA but would NOT have your same experiences stored in their brains, and would not have the same neural connections because they did not go through the same events that you did.
So, you might be an artist, but your close could grow up to be a physicist, a basket ball player, or a serial killer, depending on their experiences and environment. Now, there might be certain proclivities in common, you might both enjoy a taste for certain wines, or foods. Perhaps there's a genetic trait or defect you'll share in common. But basically you'd be two separate entities with two separate lives.
Now, if we had the ability to accurately transport or "copy" matter AND structure, that might be a completely different question. Since you'd have the same genetic structure AND the same brain structure (assuming it's an exact duplicate in all regards). However, your subsequent experiences and perspectives woudl diverge from the point of copy since you would both experience things slightly differently... (You're walking side by side, and one stubs their toe, while the other doesn't, etc.)
Hope that all made sense...
2006-07-28 11:36:12 · answer #1 · answered by Michael Gmirkin 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, the thoughts and memories never happened to the clone so it wouldn't have any of them. In some theoretical cases it is assumed that if parents were to clone a child who had died early there would be different effects. The parents would see this identical child and push memories of the original child on the clone who would think them as their own. Also, because when the nucleus was removed from the child it wasn't fully developed, the clone might suffer spasms and anxiety attacks in and around the approximate time the original child died or the nucleus was removed. Its not exactly a memory but it is kind of a link.
2006-07-28 15:25:54 · answer #2 · answered by lasginny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person is the product of three things: (#1) their genes, inherited from their parents (only 1 parent if cloned); (#2) the chemical and hormonal environment in the mother's uterus; and (#3) the person's experience in life after being born.
If a person is created by cloning, then he or she has the same genes (#1) as the parent. But the new person's environment in the uterus (#2) and life experience (#3) are different. So a cloned human is a totally different person from the parent.
Whatever is determined by #1 will be the same as in the parent. Thus facial appearance, adult height, foot size, etc., will be the same, just as with identical twins. But all the rest will be different, including memories, which are determined by life experience. This is why all the movies about cloning are generally total BS, since they assume there is some kind of "psychic" connection.
2006-07-28 11:46:03 · answer #3 · answered by jim n 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course they can't be cloned and that would always be a problem with the process. We may well be able to clone humans shortly but there will be no guarantee that a clone of Mother Teresa,say, will not turn out to be another Myra Hindley whilst one of Adolph Hitler might be a future pope. Identical twins can, after all, grow up to have completely different natures although they are genetically identical.
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2006-07-28 11:48:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're on about raising from a baby, but cloned from dna placed into an egg, it would be like rearing identical twins - and everything knows theres always something slightly different with them isn't there. You're right though. Memories and personality cannot be cloned, because we are all products of our own environments.
2006-07-29 00:45:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'll try to make this short
By means of cloning, it copies the exact DNA from one person, and plant it into a embryo. Memories and thoughts are not part of DNA. Appearence, certain abilities are from DNA. Memories and thoughts are aquired by a person through his life, not by birth, and do not change the DNA. If memories and thoughts are cloned, then if the original person has a scar or a bruse on his leg, they will be cloned too.
2006-07-28 14:50:34 · answer #6 · answered by aesthetic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well cloning has only been able to be successful in fertilised eggs so no memories would be present. In a grown human it hasnt worked and if the day ever comes where we find out how to clone them I sincerely hope that they "accidently" lose the piece of paper because it'll be a nightmare waiting to happen
2006-08-01 11:45:39 · answer #7 · answered by theonetheycalljess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A clone is an identical twin born a little later. Your clone will grow up to have your genes, but not your memories.
2006-07-28 11:34:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm 40 5 years old. I undergo in innovations the first "try tube infant". They took an egg from a lady and artificially inseminated it and made slightly one. you would not believe all the moral outrage that led to. a similar element is going to happen with human cloning. it is going to happen and persons receives used to it and it will be a part of society. As for cloning aspects and not in any respect the entire, it is further down the line, perchance 40 years from now. it should be basically as immoral to clone a human to reap that's organs because it should be to abort any infant to reap that's organs. And sure, a human clone ought to stroll between us a lifeless ringer for a common individual. At this level of the game in cloning, a clone is born as slightly one and a lengthy time period like a known human. they don't seem made as finished grown people. So the clone will appear like the unique yet probable received't act like the unique or sense a similar about subject matters because the unique. a lifeless ringer for kids do not accept as true with their mom and father. it is because we deal with critiques with our own human being studies. The clone's existence should be different from the originals existence no remember how demanding you tried to lead them to a similar. So in case you took Einstein's DNA and cloned him, you probable received't get a guy it is as proficient in physics because the unique.
2016-10-15 10:16:39 · answer #9 · answered by knudsen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cloning is basic life or cells.It cannot clone memory or thoughts.Even when you are born knowledge and memory are later developments.Thoughts develop still late.Perhaps character and body features will be replica.You may be able to create thousands of Bush and thousands of Osamas
2006-07-31 18:02:03 · answer #10 · answered by leowin1948 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋