Sunday, November 27, 2016

Clones vs The Real Thing

In the episode of Black Mirror that we watched in class, we saw that Martha lost her husband in a car accident. She was approached by a friend that told her about a way to communicate with her dead husband. She dismisses the thought at first, but as the show progresses she decides to try it. When she activates the clone of her dead husband , she discovers that his thoughts and emotions are not of her husband. That brings up the question of cloning. Can a person be cloned and have the same purpose and future? No, that is not the case. The clone in the show looked exactly like the husband, but it possessed no thoughts or emotions. It was like a baby . It has to learn as it goes. The experiences were not cloned. Toward the end of the show Martha realized that she would rather have the real thing. She did not want to teach the clone how to do things and love her the way her husband did.

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