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To: Krowbar who wrote (27432)	12/30/1998 12:48:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Del, Whenever people describe religion or spirituality as a search for meaning I wonder if they honestly want to know what (if anything) life means, or if they are simply searching for ways to reassure themselves that it means what they want it to mean. Steve

To: Krowbar who wrote (27432)	12/30/1998 1:32:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Science cannot promise life after death, but neither can it rule it out. Not so fast! The current cloning dabate (damn Clinton for a meddling fool) is going to permit cloning perfect copies -- at least of ladies -- as soon as the brakes are off. Already in Korea a four-cell embryo has been produced -- and then "terminated." I believe body cloning is right around the corner. Neuroscience is working furiously on the translocation of memory, supposedly to help the brain-damaged to remember their lives and function successfully. I am working to establish a research foundation to pursue a number of lines of work to improve the transferability of neuroinformation between clones. Hey, I think I will have another shot of quantum electrodynamics. I fully intend to deposit sufficient tissue to allow me to be cloned and experimented on innumerable times. There are big problems in the handover between generations, even if that can be done successfully. I insist that clones have absolute freedom to exercise their autonomy. If I know my genome, they will. The cloned descendents will never be willing to replicate me, but if I know them, as they travel in space -- their promised home -- they will wonder what their elder clone was thinking. There will be plenty of information banked away to give them pause, when I have shuffled off my mortal coil. I think of them as they will be, better educated than anyone today -- strong, brave, beautiful (their grosser physical and mental defects fixed by gene surgery) --alert -- questing ever for more knowledge. It's not immortality -- it's better -- and it's full of stars.