It's interesting you say 'cheating' though - I hadn't looked at it like that, because clone Jack *is* Jack but with that little bit more - Jack+ as it were. And now that's got me thinking: at what point can you say that Jack and clone Jack become truly separate entities? They have everything in common to start with but then they start to diverge as soon as they begin having separate experiences - but will they ever reach a point where their dissimilar experiences will change their identical natures? Or will different experiences only temper their natures? Because in the first case, they would probably be different people and in the second, the same person reacting differently to similar circumstances.
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Date: 2006-03-20 04:51 pm (UTC)It's interesting you say 'cheating' though - I hadn't looked at it like that, because clone Jack *is* Jack but with that little bit more - Jack+ as it were. And now that's got me thinking: at what point can you say that Jack and clone Jack become truly separate entities? They have everything in common to start with but then they start to diverge as soon as they begin having separate experiences - but will they ever reach a point where their dissimilar experiences will change their identical natures? Or will different experiences only temper their natures? Because in the first case, they would probably be different people and in the second, the same person reacting differently to similar circumstances.
This is hurting my brain :-(