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Originally posted by das_hermit
I guess another point worth considering is upbringing, which plays quite a role in determining who we are too. |
yes... but if you copy an adult and see how alike they are just after creation you would probably get a completely different result than if you raise two clones from childhood and then compare them when they grow up......
as for the original question I don't belive that the brain controls everything in your body... I'm not altogether sure but normal body reflexes have a tendensy to operate differently inbetween individuals and I don't know if this intellect is in the brain or not, it would sortof be a buil in low level intelligence in the muscle that reacts to signals sent from the brain neurons in different ways depending on what you have experianced in your life... and hence if only the brain is copied from one person to another the person with the copied brain would still retain some of his/hers built in reflexes and therefore not be the same....
ofcourse (atleast I think it's ofcourse) after being exposed to the world for only two or three seconds the clone will start to develop their own personanity from what happens to them and as time passes by more and more will differentiate the persons
as for a soul.... I've found little evidence that there's anything as supernatural as that controlling us...I'm still pretty young though so I've got alot of time to find out and I really hope I will.... it's been bothering me for some time now....