When it comes to discussing specific subject, I like referring to movies because it is the only place the impossible becomes possible. I find it quite amazing how we humans develop some movies ideas, it is a proof of how wild our imaginations can get but is it all imagination? We have to admit how creative humans have gotten when it comes to usage of technology.
Looking at how far we have gotten, every impossible idea that used to be just a line in a movie script is slowly becoming reality, apart from the zombies Apocalypse. Humans are creatures that evolve based on the available knowledge at hand and technology being the ever evolving sector in the society has never cease to amaze me.
If we were to look back about 20 years ago, when the closest thing to artificial intelligence were search engines, scientific calculator. We were doing just fine in those days but humans evolution is never something that enjoys standing still, it keeps moving and so we moved till we find ourselves where we are currently.
With every innovative idea, comes with all kind of new challenges. I keep saying; humans are not prepared for the capabilities of artificial intelligence but someday it is going to be an ancient innovation just like our scientific calculator.
If I Was given the opportunity to be cloned and transfer my memory to the clone, would I go for it? It definitely sounds creepy. I watched a movie called Altered Carbon few years ago, a SciFi TV series that involves human cloning and all sort of advanced technology stuff that you can possibly imagine and another movie called The Peripheral that also portrays similar reality of advanced technology being used to transform and improve humans. To make it worst, I watched another movie recently called Mickey 17 which kind portrayed human cloning in a more dubious manner.
As beautiful as it looked at first in the movie, with everyone feeling superfly like some sort of heroes from marvel avengers, a specific issue always seems to arrive in the middle of it all when everything seems to be working perfectly, the case of human dubious nature. What most people don't understand is humans thirst for destruction, it is an evil force that exist in us all. We will never stop trying to destroy each other, in every little way possible.
I believe the question we need to ask is, what will my clone do with my memory, would he not feel like he is the real me? What will the real me be without the memories from my past? My clone and I will be two different beings, one living with the memory from my past - who I used to be and the the real me will start forging a new path since I have no memory of who I used to be.
The most scary aspect of this for me is that, what if my clone decided to want to be the real deal? I mean becoming the original version of myself? It is not like I would be able to chain my clone and store him in my closet. What will be my clone identity? If my clone should have memories from my past and the real me doesn't, does that not make my clone the real me? I can think of a billion ways cloning technology could turn out be problematic.
You know the most funny truth I learnt from those movies is that, the moment we start having clones, it means the other version of ourselves becomes dependent on technology to survive and we will also have to use technology to duplicate our brains to make the other version of ourselves become a replica of us in every way possible, which will grant computers access to our minds. Apart from trusting a clone with my memories, I would also be exposing my mind to the possibility of getting hacked.
This write-up was inspired by weekly featured content titled Just a clone in hive learners community.
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