Blog post #8

Before I took this cluster, I really didnt pay much mind to cloning and androids because I felt like the possibility of those things happening being very slim but after extensive reading. I now realize that it will play a huge role in the future sooner than we think and to a much bigger and important aspect of human morals. Cloning would have to be accepted and people would have to learn that clones are independently minded people and its just genes being cloned, not their minds so the thoughts would always be different. Androids and computers will be able to process the same brain power of all the humans in the world put together in 40 years or less, meaning to tasks being easier and faster to do. We can make robots to build sound structures in places prone to earthquakes while still keeping prices low enough so that it actually benefits people. Cloning would lead to medical advancements and possibly eliminating world hunger and and extinction of some animals. I also learned how to integrate sources and quotes effectively in my works so that it leads to most convincing essay and powerful phrases. I overcame the difficulty of finding books and sources from outside places and finding better sources than just those found on google.

Blog post #7

Caryl Churchill's play A Number depicts how nurture plays a roll in how people end up being. This is done with a clone and showing how he ends up being different from the original simply by the way he was raised. Bernard 1, the original, had a very sad childhood because his father didn't pay much attention to him and never was there for him when he was needed. However for Bernard 2, he did the complete opposite and showered him affected and appealed to his every need. This shows how even though genetic clones can be raised by the same person and still end up being different, leading to human identity being more unique even if it were to be compared to that of your clone. Churchill does this by showing Micheal Black and Bernard 2, the clones of Bernard 1, each having different paths and success stories. Churchill sides with nurture along with nature lead to human identity and not just one's genes. So this leads to human cloning not being as skeptical as once thought to be because even thought a person can have 21 different clones, none of them are ever going to end being the same exact person unless they both grew up under the exact same conditions and experiences, which face it will never truly happen unless its an experiment and even then the way the clones process that wont be the same as the original.