Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 03:21 PM EDT |
Yes. A mutation in your gametes has no direct effect on your
physical appearance or behaviour, it can affect only your descendants.
Each of them is already guaranteed to be a distinct unique individual*
so could never be considered an exact copy of you, so they are a
new, altered you.
* I don't know the latest word on identical twins.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: LocoYokel on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 06:57 PM EDT |
Does changing the channel make a new TV or radio? That is the equivalent to
running a program.
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Political correctness is an effort to abrogate the First
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 20 2012 @ 03:31 PM EDT |
In actual fact, any cell that is modified in this way is irrevocably modified
and can not be changed back to what it was originally (barring the
astronomically improbable chance that another event would reverse the change),
and would never be the same again, except (possibly) by the gene-repairing
mechanism mentioned elsewhere in this comment string.
On the other hand, to reverse the effects of loading a program into a computer's
memory, all that is required is to clear its memory to make it revert to its
former state, without any lasting change; hence, the two events are not
analogous or even comparable.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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