Immortality. Fact or Fiction?

[Karlos]

KennyR wrote:

Blobrana wrote:
twins are clones remember...

No they aren't. Different fingerprints and everything.

They are clones in the sense that they are genetically identical. However, its a common misconception that identical genes equates identical copy, which as you point out is not true. A great many natural structures in the body are fractal in nature and as such will differ slightly thanks to the influence of chaos as they grow and develop.

A perfect genetic clone of oneself would be no closer than one's own identical twin.

There is also evidence to suggest that there is some biological record of age that is not yet fully understood. Cloned animals have exhibited very rapid ageing effects that whould physically put them in a similar condition to the adult they were cloned from (Dolly the sheep was a classic example here).

[Karlos]

FluffyMcDeath wrote:

iamaboringperson wrote:

A different entity would take over, and you wouldn't know.

You could say the same thing about baby iamaboringperson, or 10 yr old iamaboringperson. Those entities are now dead and non of the atoms that made them up remain in the new entity that calls itself iamaboringperson, an new entity that just thinks it was, once, those other entities.

Just think, he might not have even been iamaboringchild :-D