Let’s talk about the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, The Sixth Day.
Spoiler Warning! It’s a movie all about cloning.
If a pet dies, quickly get it cloned before the kids find out. But then we find out they’re cloning people who have died too. Except they accidentally clone Arnold Schwarzenegger because they think he’s died, when he hasn’t…and now there’s two of him.
But here’s the thing in this movie that really bothers me. In the movie we see the villain on the verge of death and rushing to produce a clone of himself before he dies.
How will that help him? He’s still going to die. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll see that a half-finished clone is uncaring about the still dying version of himself because they both exist at the same time…which isn’t the way they’d usually do things as they would wait for the person to die first and then clone them after.
But the point is, even if you are dying, having a clone of yourself to take over doesn’t carry your consciousness over. You’re still you and you’re still dead. The clone is a completely independent being, who just so happens to look just like you, and also have all of your memories.
If you ask me, if you wanted to clone yourself like this, you’d also want a way to transfer your mind over into that body, or it’s just not worth doing.
Or just make a clone and keep them on ice in case you need a body part transplanted or a blood transfusion. Keep them as spare parts…right? Or is that a bit morbid?
The only reason I can think you’d actually want to bother cloning yourself as shown in the Sixth Day would be so that your family or friends might miss you and you could have a clone of yourself carry on after you’re gone.
Or you know.
Just clone yourself and have multiples of you to work together or have an orgy…I’m just throwing ideas out there…
