Programmers can answer all existential questions with ease
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The real answer btw is no, cloned animals aren't identical to their original, same base traits, but for example in cows spot position will be different
Also unless you can copy their memories, they just won't be the same person.
And then they'd have two different life experiences and would immediately begin to differ.
And we also change every milisecond. How long this process takes? It may seem irrelevant but copy of you 5 seconds ago is not you now. It's your restored back up.
Unless your pause execution of the original or there's an ongoing synchronization during the cloning process
Sync would lag anyway, I think, if we are pedantic.
Pausing the execution of the original via execution solves the problem of who's original here tho. One's still functioning.
Well it depends on the method of sync... Doing it through updates would lag, but what if it was through something like quantum effects, or even by treating both bodies and brains like a contiguous organism until the cloning is complete? Like with a cell dividing, there's no original
So it's kind of like the moment of inception is the memory reference, and they won't ever be the same?
They're now two people who will love two different lives, they will naturally begin to diverge