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Will cloning a surrogate for any would be space beamers be actually feasable without a conrete

understanding and encapsulation of innate and aquired abilitys on the preconsious level. A

surrogate would have to have rock steady afferent, efferent and prorioceptive sensations and

reactions. Encoded also in a modular fashion would be speech, movement, and sensory motor. Aside

from that we would just expect these modules to either be biological or artificial but that

there is a seemless link with the host during beaming.

From a moral standpoint growing surrogates would first need to be done using robots. No way

anyone would allow human cloning first and let alone experimentation before it had been made

absolutely safe that any clone would not violate the 6th day protocol and as it were be in

posession of a soul.

There would be a fine line between a clone just being an empty vessel and a clone being a

surrogate with a mind of its own.

Although Im sure their are some of you out there that wouldnt mind!! Kinky.

And I suppose with human cloning then comes to the Blade Runner problem. If cloning then

presumably replication, false memorys - "Our goal at Tyrel is more human than human"

Who would claim ownership. Would we unknowingly become slavers. Would we become slavers if the

clone was in fact entirely robotic. Whats the difference.

Then also you have the obvious problem of growing the clones to maturity. Possibly by some form of science magic in which anti anti-aging occurs and that during this process they are kept as programmable surrogates devoid of minds of their own. Both are tall tasks and may need further elaboration.

In the book brave new world aldous huxley uses oxygen deprivation in early fetal development to alter brain development in order to acheive a cast based society of alpha betas and gammas.

Another way to frame the moral question is by saying would you give consent for yourself to be cloned and that clone be used to host your mind at some future time?