X-Message-Number: 7778
From: Peter Merel <>
Subject: Re: Revival via Cloning
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:00:26 +1100 (EST)

Thomas Donaldson writes,


>While I cannot speak for others, I would not want to be cloned until and unless
>other work had shown decisively that I could not be revived. I did not get
>involved in cryonics so that a clone of mine could see the future. I wanted
>to live till then, and see it myself. Certainly I would want to be cloned if
>nothing else was provably available, but that fails to be true now and 
>probably won't be true for centuries at least. 

Indeed, but I was thinking of those cases where no substantial brain
preservation has been possible; I seem to recall a recent posting
referring to the freezing of bed linen that had skin flakes left on it.
In these cases, I wondered whether any org would see it as their
responsibility to attempt use of the new techniques, or whether the
tremendous controversy surrounding the subject of human cloning would
scotch the idea.

I certainly was not suggesting that such a course would be wise, or that
I'd be interested in any such thing for myself: I would not. It's only
in the cases where orgs have frozen such remains as linen-contaminated
skin flakes that I think the question arises.

Hmm. A business opportunity, albeit far-fetched, does occur to me; while
cloning humans seems to be fairly pointless, cloning pets might be
something that would attract customers, as much of a pet's personality
is either innate or may be reproduced by its cohabitation with its owner.
I'm not certain about a business name - perhaps "Pining for the Fjords" :-)

Peter Merel.


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