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Writer's Block: But enough about you
Apr. 5th, 2010 10:43 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
This is all presuming that said clone even HAS my same personality/memories/what have you. I'm not entirely sure its possible to clone two of the exact same BEING, as opposed to cloning something of the exact genetic makeup of the source. But that's besides the point.
I think having a copy of myself would be very bad for me. I already have a very "fractured" sense of self, and spend way too much time talking with only myself. Granted, it COULD be seen as socializing, but in reality would probably only make me more antisocial. I enjoy my own company the most, sometimes.
Another reason is that I will often have arguments with "myself" over whether to do something or not/whether or not it is a good idea. If there were some other version of me, who is to say it couldn't talk me into doing things I might not do if I were just me on my own?
Aside from that, while it might be boring to try talking to it about things like my stories and characters (which I'd assume it would know just as much about as me), I'd like to think that it might still be able to surprise me. For instance, I'm operating under the impression that we are the same up until the point where the cloning occurs, at which time it becomes its own separate entity, only with my memories, outlooks, and feeling from before the separation.
After that it might grow and develop in a very different way than I do.
This is all presuming that said clone even HAS my same personality/memories/what have you. I'm not entirely sure its possible to clone two of the exact same BEING, as opposed to cloning something of the exact genetic makeup of the source. But that's besides the point.
I think having a copy of myself would be very bad for me. I already have a very "fractured" sense of self, and spend way too much time talking with only myself. Granted, it COULD be seen as socializing, but in reality would probably only make me more antisocial. I enjoy my own company the most, sometimes.
Another reason is that I will often have arguments with "myself" over whether to do something or not/whether or not it is a good idea. If there were some other version of me, who is to say it couldn't talk me into doing things I might not do if I were just me on my own?
Aside from that, while it might be boring to try talking to it about things like my stories and characters (which I'd assume it would know just as much about as me), I'd like to think that it might still be able to surprise me. For instance, I'm operating under the impression that we are the same up until the point where the cloning occurs, at which time it becomes its own separate entity, only with my memories, outlooks, and feeling from before the separation.
After that it might grow and develop in a very different way than I do.
