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02 Sep 2011, 6:36 am

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if its a quantum copy you could agree to the procedure for the copy. because it's you. no?


"quantum" copying destroys the original.

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not on the movie the illusionist it didn't


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02 Sep 2011, 11:34 am

Knifey wrote:
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if its a quantum copy you could agree to the procedure for the copy. because it's you. no?


"quantum" copying destroys the original.

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not on the movie the illusionist it didn't


I am speaking of physics. you are are fiddling with fiction. As an exercise look up the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

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05 Sep 2011, 6:34 am

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I am speaking of physics. you are are fiddling with fiction.
Yes the OP was nothing to do with science, I don't know how to make it any more obvious. It was a hypothetical about ethics not science. I don't know if people on this forum are too ret*d/pedantic to understand and respect that. Thinking about it now, I expected way to much.


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05 Sep 2011, 8:46 am

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This would be a totally necessary way to clone replacement organs anyway, you can simply clone organs by themselves, it is prohibitively expensive to grow a whole human being just for one organ. If you end up needing the guy or girl's liver or heart they would die afterwards. Much simpler to just "grow" an individual organ, and removes the ethical questions. If you had further advanced technology that could instantaneously create copies it would still be the same situation
The tech to gerenate isolated parts of bodies is getting so serious, that I think a more realistic hypothetical question is:

Would you eat manufactured meat? And I mean, if it was possible to generate cow parts without a brain and in mass would you eat it? Including if you were a vegetarian, because without brain or anything it would not really suffer. It would be like eating plants, but they would taste like cow o_O


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05 Sep 2011, 9:33 am

that's not much of a dilemma. i would eat my own clone if it was grown without a brain. especially if it was a quantum copy as i know how little exercise I get I would be so tender.

edit: make that no head, and no skin. I don't want it to look like me while I eat it.


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05 Sep 2011, 1:19 pm

Vexcalibur wrote:
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This would be a totally necessary way to clone replacement organs anyway, you can simply clone organs by themselves, it is prohibitively expensive to grow a whole human being just for one organ. If you end up needing the guy or girl's liver or heart they would die afterwards. Much simpler to just "grow" an individual organ, and removes the ethical questions. If you had further advanced technology that could instantaneously create copies it would still be the same situation
The tech to gerenate isolated parts of bodies is getting so serious, that I think a more realistic hypothetical question is:

Would you eat manufactured meat? And I mean, if it was possible to generate cow parts without a brain and in mass would you eat it? Including if you were a vegetarian, because without brain or anything it would not really suffer. It would be like eating plants, but they would taste like cow o_O


I actually started a thread about that topic some months ago. I am all for growing meat without having to support a huge animal population


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05 Sep 2011, 7:32 pm

they did that on better off ted. "what does it taste like? DISPARE"


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