Programmers can answer all existential questions with ease

  • candyman337@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The real answer btw is no, cloned animals aren’t identical to their original, same base traits, but for example in cows spot position will be different

    Also unless you can copy their memories, they just won’t be the same person.

    And then they’d have two different life experiences and would immediately begin to differ.

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      1 year ago

      And we also change every milisecond. How long this process takes? It may seem irrelevant but copy of you 5 seconds ago is not you now. It’s your restored back up.

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        1 year ago

        Unless your pause execution of the original or there’s an ongoing synchronization during the cloning process

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          Sync would lag anyway, I think, if we are pedantic.

          Pausing the execution of the original via execution solves the problem of who’s original here tho. One’s still functioning.

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            1 year ago

            Well it depends on the method of sync… Doing it through updates would lag, but what if it was through something like quantum effects, or even by treating both bodies and brains like a contiguous organism until the cloning is complete? Like with a cell dividing, there’s no original