Do Human Clones have Spirits?

Question

Does a clone have a spiritual side? a soul?

If a clone has no soul, then would it mean that if it died , then that is the absolute ending of its life?

No Heaven or hell for him, just a double that was never supposed to exist

Answer 1

if you can think, you deserve to live.

Answer 2

Great questions!

The cloning issues bring to light an important idea...
Does the soul exist a priori, or is it developed through experience?

One thing is for sure; Real animal clones exist. They behave exactly like their natural-born counterparts.

We don't have the ability to successfully make a human clone yet, or at least no one has done it publicly.

When we can, I would be willing to make a bet though!
...make three human clones.
...raise them essentially the same way. Provide food clothing shelter, love, (yes love and hugs) and parental advice.

Have one raised by atheists....
Another raise by Christians....
The other raised by Hindus.

My wager is that whatever beliefs the family had the clone would be likely to have also. Should that prove true for clones as it does for normally-birthed children, that would indicate that environment affects philosophical programming.

Babies do not ever come out of the womb believing in anything. Belief is inculcated through indoctrination.

The question of "soul" is not so easy to answer.
Humans and their brains are amazingly complex.
We all know that we have a brain.
We all know that we have a body.
Yet, we also sense through another agency, some would call "soul."

Evolution proves that there are survival advantages to behaving ethically and cooperatively. So if a clone behaved ethically and cooperatively, it would make sense that some portion of our ethical "soul" comes directly from our genes. Creationists would argue that god made the DNA and the scientist and the clone too. But, throwing away irrational presumptions such as that, we could get a better understanding of where soul comes from and what it really is.

However, it would be difficult to separate that genetic portion from the environmental factors that also influence the development of soul.

It could be possible that humans are innately born with a quantity of awareness, and that such awareness could be developed into what we call soul.

It could be possible that "soul' is strictly a byproduct of higher brain function.

Although, for most people's definition of "soul" it seems obvious that animals have soul. At least we love them as if they have souls. We take care of them. We feed, water and walk with them. Animals suffer psychologically if they are abandoned. So does that mean that all animals have some quanta of soul?

My gut reaction is yes... but who's to say from whence my gut reactions stem?

When we realize that living creatures, including complex mammals, can be created directly from DNA, it provokes a new perspective on our origins and the meaning of "soul."

Answer 3

A clone has a soul the same as any other human being. The soul, or spirit, enters the body at the moment of conception (from Heaven, or spiritworld as I call it) or in the case of the clone as soon as it is given life. Souls are reincarnated from previous lives, so enter a human body however it was manufactured.

Answer 4

I would say no, a Clone would be created by man and man does not have the ability or permission to give a soul/spirit,

I would say that there would be a fundamental piece missing from a clone which may not be able to be seen at first...I would really doubt that a clone would be able to 'feel' compassion, love, hate, happiness or any other emotion. It would have no spiritual/emotional heart...
Yes it could function but probably from a logical perspective....DANGEROUS.

Answer 5

The body is dead without soul. The symptom of the soul is consciousness. By laws of karma one who is take on the body by pious/impious acts - he is sent to that body. Body is like an apartment. The person who can afford by his previous pious acts is given better facility say - a human body. Cloning means the apartment is there with the same materials. The soul is sent by the superior order to go and occupy that apartment. As one pays he can afford the body(apartment). It is based on previous pious or impious acts on the body he gets.


Bg 2.20 P Contents of the Gita Summarized
The soul is full of knowledge, or full always with consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is the symptom of the soul. Even if one does not find the soul within the heart, where he is situated, one can still understand the presence of the soul simply by the presence of consciousness. Sometimes we do not find the sun in the sky owing to clouds, or for some other reason, but the light of the sun is always there, and we are convinced that it is therefore daytime. As soon as there is a little light in the sky early in the morning, we can understand that the sun is in the sky. Similarly, since there is some consciousness in all bodies--whether man or animal--we can understand the presence of the soul. This consciousness of the soul is, however, different from the consciousness of the Supreme because the supreme consciousness is all-knowledge--past, present and future. The consciousness of the individual soul is prone to be forgetful. When he is forgetful of his real nature, he obtains education and enlightenment from the superior lessons of Krsna. But Krsna is not like the forgetful soul. If so, Krsna's teachings of Bhagavad-gita would be useless.

There are two kinds of souls--namely the minute particle soul (anu-atma) and the Supersoul (the vibhu-atma). This is also confirmed in the Katha Upanisad in this way:


anor aniyan mahato mahiyan
atmasya jantor nihito guhayam
tam akratuh pasyati vita-soko
dhatuh prasadan mahimanam atmanah
(Katha 1.2.20)

"Both the Supersoul [Paramatma] and the atomic soul [jivatma] are situated on the same tree of the body within the same heart of the living being, and only one who has become free from all material desires as well as lamentations can, by the grace of the Supreme, understand the glories of the soul." Krsna is the fountainhead of the Supersoul also, as it will be disclosed in the following chapters, and Arjuna is the atomic soul, forgetful of his real nature; therefore he requires to be enlightened by Krsna, or by His bona fide representative (the spiritual master).

Answer 6

There's always an egg in cloning so the human factor is never cut out even if they start messing about with animal DNA and crossing kinds. So yes I think a clone would still have a human soul and still have a human spirit whether enlivened or not.

Answer 7

I don't know.

The bible says God sends the spirit and it returns to him when someone dies. It seems that a clone would be every bit as human as his twin, but since we do not know how or when we receive a spirit, we could not predict the spiritual future of a clone.

The soul, according to the bible is the mind, will, and emotions(personality). It seems to be a combination of the DNA of the parents, environment, and free choice.

According to the Bible, the soul (personality/personal history) is at risk on judgment day. It could, along with the body, "be destroyed in hell (death)."

Answer 8

Soul is practically a very complex system of neurons in our brain. These neurons store the information about what we experienced (memory) and what we are supposed to do in certain situations (personality). Clones have brain cells too, so they must have souls as well.

Answer 9

you're supposed to be able to choe the body and lif that you will lead so if cloning was the artifical bringing about of life
why shouldnt you be able to chose that life
you are implying clones are souless
well thats just not possible as every living creature has a soul
the plants the animals and een us
and even clones

Answer 10

If a clone looks human, and can think, and act, and is aware of its own existence? Then it has a soul!

Answer 11

Hey, this is a good question here.

This will cause people to doubt that there is a soul, and I see why, but the key that they fail to see is that no one is created exactly the same. Clone or not.

If you have a clone that has the exact same genes as you, then what is it that will make you two different? THE SOUL.