As someone who studied biology for most of my education, I can boldy say that cloning is not a new term to me. I’ve always had an idea of how it works practically. For example, cloning occurs naturally in plants, where organisms produce identical offspring through a process called asexual reproduction.
Biologically, humans also produce clones, and that’s why we have identical twins from the same parents. However, their genetic makeup is not a hundred percent the same, and that is what distinguishes one from the other. If human cloning were not fictional, that little difference would also be the reality of every clone tht exists.
A clone would not have a hundred percent of my features and thus will never be me. But we would share a lot of physical and genetic similarities. Our DNA code would match, and they would likely have my eye colour, hair colour and face shape. It's certain that my clone would be able to smile exactly like me, express disgust in the same way that I do, have a similar posture or style of walking, and probably share my intelligence.
Knowing all these, would I really want a reality where a clone of myself is made?
Well, that may sound tricky, but I immediately knew what my answer would be the moment I asked myself this question aloud. That’s because I consider myself a very unique person, and I know that even if I were a twin right now, I would still be a different person with independent thoughts, values, rights and personal experiences.
Having a clone would mean that I get to engineer another entity that would have the chance of making their own decisions when I’m long gone from this earth and viewing things differently from how I do, all while looking almost exactly like me. I believe this would be confusing for anyone who knows me deeply or has shared a huge part of their lives with me. So, I wouldn’t want that confusion when I’m no longer alive.
I know there are people who would say that a clone offers us continuity in life, but is that really true, or is it delusion speaking? Remember, once a person is dead, they no longer have the ability to have authentic experiences or make decisions. In this case, can we call that continuity? Of course not.
A clone may talk like me, laugh like me, and do a few other hings like me, but they will never be me, no matter how many similarities we share, and that’s enough reason not to want it.
For example, most of my relationships are shaped by my uniqueness: the way I make people comfortable with sharing their deepest secrets and good news with me, the warmth I offer people in hard times, the unhinged jokes that I make that feel very natural and personalized, and also the special way my hugs feel.
These are things that a clone will never be able to recreate, and since my clone can not make my loved ones as happy as I do, then there’s no nothing in it for me.
I love having cherished memories, both sad and happy ones, but I still wouldn’t take the opportunity to transfer them into the brain of a clone, as that would be a slippery slope that leads to deception and finally, delusion of my existence. Instead, I would save those memories forever on iCloud, Google Mail and Drive, and even preserve my most treasured voice notes, future birthday wishes and words of affirmation in a physical recorder to serve as a duplicate source.
Honestly, as long as I live a full life exploring the world, living my wildest dreams, making the mood in every room feel lighter, and loving people as deeply as I want, I'll be satisfied with one chance at life. My impact will be more than enough to preserve my legacy and uniqueness long after I am gone, and that is all I ever wish for at the end of this journey of life.
Being remembered for all that you were, that is true continuity of life, nothing else.
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