Cloning: Nature or Nurture

[The Germanator]

Originally Posted by Xantar

Anyway, exactly recreating someone isn't going to be possible unless the laws of physics are wrong. It is well known that identical twins separated at birth, who are literally natural clones of each other, will turn out with different personalities. They don't even turn out the same when they are living in the same household, and that's because they don't have the exact same conversations with the same people or the exact same injuries at the exact same times or see the exact same events...and all that stuff is uncontrollable by humans.

Well ok, maybe they'd both turn out the same if you put them both in a blank cell and fed them the same stimuli through a TV or something. But aside from the ethical problems with that, you'd also end up with two very boring clones.

I've heard some interesting stories though about identical twins separated at birth that both end up having identical jobs and similar lifestyles decades down the line. Of course this isn't the same as having the "same" life exactly, but it's something to think about.