If cloning technology existed, do we become immortal?

Question

Seems as though many people believe it would result in this, and more than a few movies hint at it.
If I create a clone of myself and then die, my frame of consciousness is extinguished, is it not? The other clone is another organism with a now unique brain, even though it may have identical memories, basic tendencies etc...

I suppose such a belief that it would result in immortality might come about from a belief in the soul, that might be transferred to the other body after death.
Any ideas?

cant understand the first answer, second answer is irrelevant.

I love it how people on Yahoo answers twist the question to suit their own agenda. Listen, we're talking about more advanced technology that replicates you as an adult clone. Ok? no more silly answers.

you're a weird lot, you know that?

Answer 1

no

if it's the science fiction version, yes.

and i think it's available now... but if you clone yourself the clone will have to start from scratch... from age=0

Answer 2

If you clone yourself, how does the clone get your memories? They don't transfer in the DNA - you'd have to find some other way to do that. You won't find immortality this way.

I can't address your comments about a "soul" until you can define it. I can't say that any such thing even exists or not, so I don't know how it would go about transferring from you to your clone.

Answer 3

Only if they develop a method to transfer your consciousness into the new body. Now this is an ethical dilemma because you have to consider you may be erasing the consciousness of the clone for your own selfish purposes.

Additionally If cloned later in life their DNA would be just as flawed as your aging DNA and could be expected to die similarly to the time you are deceased from natural causes.

Answer 4

No. You become a "Lesser Me."

It's like "add water and spread the gravy" because 10 are coming to dinner instead of 5. The gravy was good, nice and thick, but now it is thin and doesn't taste as good.

Are you going to clone the clone? Serve water instead of gravy and you get soggy and disgusting biscuits.

You are watering down the original so of course the life span shortens. Immortality is living forever not expanding one's life by a "Lesser Me."

Psalm 34:22 "the Lord redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate."

I don't believe the clone gets a soul. I can't prove this, but it is God who formed us in our mother's womb. It is God who knew us before the womb. However, God says that "life is in the blood" and God says, "I am life." If the clone has life, then God will be a part of its spirit.

God destroyed the first world by a flood because of wickedness such as this (fallen angels mixing with humans), can you imagine what God will do with wicked men that do this?

This is okay for you atheists that don't believe in God, but we that know there is a God fear the Lord and God always does what God says He will do. I fear for the wicked men in this world.

Answer 5

Well. Cloning technology does exist.

But if you were to clone me. Then the lifeform would be placed inside its mother and brought to term then delivered.

A clone of me would come out. In other words, a time delayed identical twin. At that point, any similarities other than looks would end.

I think that stem cell research will result in immortality, as long as you can afford it.

Answer 6

It looks much more likely that we will use stem cell technology to grow new body parts in place. Expect that wealthy people will schedule body part replacements at say 1-2 per year over a period of time.

Problem would be how to grow pieces of the brain without losing memory.

Answer 7

cloning already exists
but it wouldnt be immortality because clones grow faster than the organism they were constructed from
the closest thing to the literal term of immortality is a turtle
they never die of old age, thats a fact
they do die of other causes, but were not entirely sure how they dont die of old age
if we could replicate that technique, or whatever it is, then immortality might be a foresight

Answer 8

we could potentially clone bodies, but we have no way of cloning memories. the new clone would start as a baby and grow in its own environment and be subject to its own environmental factors. it would in fact be a completely different organisim with the same genetic base as the original.

btw, human cloning has happened, its not longer science fiction... quite scary though

Answer 9

i think of it would desire to be achievable, all we would desire to do is to locate by some potential to maintain our physique working completely and producing new cells each and all of the time. yet, all freedom will end. whilst a man or woman is mortal, they understand that no be counted how undesirable issues get, they're basically going to would desire to stay via it for something of their existence, a couple of minutes whilst in comparison with eternity. in addition they have the alternative of suicide. yet once you're immortal, you could basically be locked up in reformatory continuously and ever, and no person needs that. that's why i think of persons are going to grow to be much greater terrified of the regulation and of misery of their lives.

Answer 10

The technology of cloning has always existed primitive form. Bee colonies, ants, worms ..etc. As for man; We know it as procreation.