> I don't believe in souls Consider IM to be any immaterial "self" that you believe wouldn't be included in the clone - doesn't have to be a soul as various re

> I don't believe in souls Consider IM to be any immaterial "self" that you believe wouldn't be included in the clone - doesn't have to be a soul as various religions may conceptualize. > and that a single consciousness cannot inhabit two bodies I believe there could be two bodies with identical personalities/memories/train-of-thought/etc. (whatever we label as consciousness) at some instant, but they would diverge due to different environments and not have any kind of special link between them. > what is your hypothesis about the more-or-less instant transfer of that quality to a remote planet's newly created clone? In my view it's just included in the clone - there's nothing extra that hasn't been cloned that needs to be transferred afterwards. If you totally clone an ocean, it has the same waves.