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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 556426" data-attributes="member: 1054">You seem to be confusing 'cloning' with 'building androids' or 'really, really advanced (and possibly not possible) genetic engineering'.If you 'order' a clone:a)You'll need to wait 18 years. (14 in Alabama)b)You'll probably get what you wanted in terms of hair and eye color, but that's about it. Personality is totally up in the air. You might as well just pay a couple who have the physical features you find attractive to have a child and try to get the resulting offspring to marry you when it becomes of eligible age.A clone is just a time-delayed identical twin. It's not 'programmable', any more than any other human being is. (That is, you can TRY to raise it according to your desires, but you're as likely to succeed as you are with a child conceived by any other means, which is to say, not very.)Frankly, I think it's more likely we'll just plug into VR worlds and have AIs be our 'perfect mates'. Cheaper, more practical, less risk of failure, and FASTER. A decent 'artificial personality' could probably be 'grown' in weeks or days, having an entire 'simulated life', complete with memories, anecdotes, quirks, etc, but controlled by the software. If done right, it would never know it was an AI or that it was living in a virtual world.For all you know, you are...</blockquote>