No Past and No Sense of Direccion

What makes us human? Besides the obvious things that literally define us as humans like the ability to speak and our unique body composition among other things, what really makes us humans is the ability to retain our memories and the life experiences we encounter and learn from them. Our experiences and life encounters are the things that mold us into what we end up becoming as adults.

So what if we didn’t have those experiences and those memories to define us how would feel and what would be our view of life? We most likely wouldn’t know how we should live our lives and wouldn’t know where exactly we should fit. At least, when a person suffers from memory loss they still have natural instincts and habits that remained from their lived lives.

So what if a human didn’t have memories, live experiences or even instinct that remained from habits that were practiced for a life time? This would be the case for a clone that never had the chance to live a life into adulthood. In other words, a clone that was cloned to be an adult and never went through the process of being a child or even a teenager.

Yes I know, it sounds like a cheesy sci-fi movie but if it becomes possible to clone a human being so that it is “born” as baby and can mature wouldn’t it eventually be possible to clone an adult so the clone is “born” as an adult? It could probably happen.

Soooo if this ever became possible it would be worse than being a clone that had the chance to mature like any other human conceived through traditional means.

Imagine yourself as a person who just randomly appeared in this world with no past and no idea who you are. You have a blank mind and most likely only have the basic functions programmed into you like the ability to use the restroom and the ability to speak. You open your mouth to speak but your voice is unfamiliar to you. You are told that you are a creation and you don’t know what that even means. You are disoriented and don’t even know what you are supposed to do. You don’t even know how to react to the information you are being given about your origin. As a natural instinct that every human has you might start to feel anxious and feel scared but you don’t even know what those feelings mean or how they are affecting you.

Even of the thought of going through all of that make me anxious. To not even know how fear feels is frightening. I would never wish that upon anyone.

If anyone in the future ever comes to you and asks you if you want to be part of a cloning experiment, I would suggest that you think about it twice even if it sounds appealing and cool. You could possibly be helping create a clone of yourself that has no past or memories. Scary, I know.