Scientists Say Clones would be Individuals
From the BBC:
What's odd about this is (a) the fact that anyone thought they needed a study to figure this out, and (b) the strange use of the word "probably". Did anybody really think that clones would be some kind of hive-mind, like the Borg?
A cloned human would probably consider themselves to be an individual, a study suggests.
What's odd about this is (a) the fact that anyone thought they needed a study to figure this out, and (b) the strange use of the word "probably". Did anybody really think that clones would be some kind of hive-mind, like the Borg?
posted by Daryl McCullough
2 Comments:
I object to the use of the word "themselves" in the BBC quote. We non-clones are himselves and herselves and thus individuals grammatically.
Is "dividual" already a word? We could use that to refer to multiple persons sharing the same genetic endowment, such as clones and naturally identical twins, for circumstances when such a distinction might be useful.
If dividual is a word, then wouldn't individual mean "not a dividual"? So whatever a dividual is, individuals are the opposite.
Maybe the Borg are dividuals.
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