I hear a lot about cloning lately (there seem to be 2 couples here in Holland that have a cloned baby) and they are working on cloning a Mamoth. We had our share with Bull Herman and sheep Dolly.
People seem to be against cloning. I am not, but I don't see any reason why we should clone.
Human cloning will be one big disappointment for the people that want a clone with the wrong idea in mind.
A clone is merely an exact copy of genetics and this is only for a certain amount of time. The body is merely a representation of the state of the mind and the mind is the one thing that cannot be cloned. People make choices, which effect the body they live in positively or negativly. Those decisions will materialize in the genetic print that the body has.
So cloning eg Einstein has an extreme low probabilty of having another Einstein, since the minds are in a different state. Maybe he will look the same, but he is definitely going to be different.
Btw I am not a scientist :)
Posted by mvdb at February 1, 2003 04:23 PM