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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6688627" data-attributes="member: 22424">Do parents share ownership of their children? Since they could argue that they each own half of the genetic material, so...As I said, I'm pretty sure we won't go down that road, but may of course be wrong about that.I wouldn't be surprised if we develop the ability to grow individual cloned organs (or at least some key ones) long before we can clone an entire person.Our personalities are significantly influenced by chemical factors. This is most obviously seen when under the influence of alcohol or similar, of course, but things like hormonal balance is also key.So if, for example, a habitual smoker were cloned and the brain scan transferred, the resulting person would then have a mismatch - he'd still have the psychological addiction to smoking in place, while the physiological addiction to nicotine is missing.(And, of course, despite "The 6th Day", a cloned Arnie wouldn't automatically get his muscle mass, which is of course significantly the result of training over the course of years.)Assuming a 60-year-old mind could handle the shock of being transferred into a 20-year-old body with the relative storm of hormones that that entails, could we really consider it the same person when their behaviour changes due to those hormones?</blockquote>