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So you are afraid of the loss of identity and individuality, correct? I wrote this a few days ago:
"sexual reproduction must have some huge cost benefit for it to have appeared in mammals (and others). There are many theories about this - one popular one of which is Bill Hamilton's. Basically his theory states that sexual reproduction leads to the storing of copies of genes that have no survival value currently but may in the future. Some day, some killer virus comes and some people luckily had the right immune system to deal with it because of recombination. Species that reproduce sexually will end up with better disease resistance than if they didn't. There are other theories too. Matt Ridley's book "The Red Queen" is excellent and on this topic. "
Controlling our own genetic output has this interesting quality about it. There would at first be a huge advantage to the individual and the family.The families that could afford it would have the "super kids" and those kids would do better in school, in the world, etc. (by definition and assumption).
A world of clones would leave humans in a dangerous position though. There would be less variation within the species and therefore less possible survival mechanisms to deal with changing environment.
Really - what does it matter? Why do we hold to the notion of individuality? Why is it important to us?
If humans could engineer a race of bio-computer robots that were superior to us why would we NOT do it? We would be putting the best of our human qualities in our predecessors.We would be choosing our predecessors.
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