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Meeting your clone... how does it feel?

Bella

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hee. No, I vants to look goooood, when I look at myself!
 

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If you were to be replicated, instantly, yielding an exact copy of yourself with the same memories and consciousness up to the moment of replication, how would it feel to meet and interact with the "other you"? This is assuming you meet immediately after replication, so neither of you would have had any unique memories or experiences.

I think it would be extremely uncomfortable for me, and freak me out. To meet someone who knew exactly everything that was in my head, and I theirs. And to see my likeness and mannerisms from the outside. It would feel like I had lost control of my reflection in the mirror. I always feel a little strange seeing myself on video, but I have a consciousness that it's a recording. This person would be live and interactive, self-aware, and aware of me. This physical perception is something identical twins experience, at least to some degree. But the thought of having an identical twin feels strange to me, too. But having a recently replicated copy, with replicated consciousness, really creeps me out.

How would you feel meeting a copy of yourself, memories and all? What would interacting with them be like?
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Thursday

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you mean my multiple personalities don't count ?
 

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literally or figuratively ;)

Literally, of course!

I think it would be weird, but also would make the hypothetical quest to self-actualization so much easier.

I need people to talk shit to me to get me to do shit. I also have a pretty good intuitive feel of people and what they need, so I could therapize the shit out of myself (and vice versa).

It'd be pretty crazy though.
 

INA

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What do I think?
Awesome!! I was going to say we'd probably be inseparable, then realized that would drive us both nuts.
 

wolfy

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That would be freaky. My first thought was I may have to kill it.
Secrets must stay secrets.
 
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I had a fellow SP housemate, we got ALL each other's jokes and snide references. It was awesome. And then, after that, I met a fellow SFP. It was stunning at first the way we were very much in sync with one another but now I find her a bit too predictable (which, I assure you, no one else does) and boring.

I'm thinking a clone would bore me senseless in seconds.
 

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If you were to be replicated, instantly, yielding an exact copy of yourself with the same memories and consciousness up to the moment of replication, how would it feel to meet and interact with the "other you"? This is assuming you meet immediately after replication, so neither of you would have had any unique memories or experiences.

I think it would be extremely uncomfortable for me, and freak me out. To meet someone who knew exactly everything that was in my head, and I theirs. And to see my likeness and mannerisms from the outside. It would feel like I had lost control of my reflection in the mirror. I always feel a little strange seeing myself on video, but I have a consciousness that it's a recording. This person would be live and interactive, self-aware, and aware of me. This physical perception is something identical twins experience, at least to some degree. But the thought of having an identical twin feels strange to me, too. But having a recently replicated copy, with replicated consciousness, really creeps me out.

How would you feel meeting a copy of yourself, memories and all? What would interacting with them be like?
It takes an INTP to think up something like this. :newwink:
Perhaps because of my enneagram 4 deep desire to be understood, I think I would like it. I think that's the whole thing of having a soul-mate... it's someone who knows and understands you to the very depths of your being... and who loves you unconditionally.
 

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This is what I'd like to happen:

I think it would be weird, but also would make the hypothetical quest to self-actualization so much easier.

I need people to talk shit to me to get me to do shit. I also have a pretty good intuitive feel of people and what they need, so I could therapize the shit out of myself (and vice versa).

It'd be pretty crazy though.

But I suspect it would be more like this:

My guess is that it would be very disturbing and eventually damaging. I think we all have a self-image based on things internal, and we'd have the ability to examine ourselves externally. We wouldn't like what we'd see, mostly because it would be so bizzare and different than how we see ourselves. I think it would make me curl into a paralyzing episode of useless overanalysis. I think it would end up an exponentially more unsettling version of hearing your voice on tape and going "Ew, do I sound like that?"
 

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Haha! I would like to think that once my clone is made that he will be completely independent of me in terms of future development.
If he's not- I don't think I want to meet my clone..
 

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It would be nice to have someone to sit on the beach with. I seem to be the only one who enjoys it, because I'm always on my own.
 

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It would be nice to have someone to sit on the beach with. I seem to be the only one who enjoys it, because I'm always on my own.
That's something I enjoy as well. :)
 

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I would kill him on sight. Right then without any hesistation.

I would feel no remorse, and have no second thoughts about it.

After reading certian comic books as a child, one of by biggest irrational fears is having to face a clone of myself.

What. An. Ordeal.
 

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I wrote an entire blog about cloning myself about 50 times. I wouldn't use them to interact with them, I would use them to do my bidding.

As a precaution, just in case my clones begin to do anything other than my bidding, I would implant pacemakers in all of them that are psychically linked to my brain. If they disobey me, then I would shut off their pacemakers with my mind and then they would have no choice.

The clones would also be outfitted not with my bone structure, but with bones made of titanium alloy, so that they will be more durable.

I also considered cloning a female version of myself. But I would have to program her so that she can't reproduce...I don't want to raise kids who are freaks. Oh yeah, and I think that I said she would have a fear of rat traps.

There are so many possibilities when it comes to cloning.
 

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I'm guessing it would be quite boring to interact with my clone since I already interact with myself day in and day out.
 

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Oh, probably plan a crime, with the perfect alibi.

That, or make a mad dash to the closest weapon. Aint' no way I'm splitting my life, and given that neither one of us would respect any fair way of determining who gets it, we either help each other get more when divided, or we kill each other.
 

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It would be totally foreign. I would use it as a chance to externally research myself. Exciting!
 
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