Hey guys, I have been thinking about this for awhile, and although it may possibly may be a stupid thought I decided Id put it forward to you guys to see what you think.
I have been curious if humans sent DNA into space in the form of hair, cells, ect. and it somehow managed to land in the hands of some form of intelligent life that had a decent grasp on cloning, what would happen?
If for example, they managed to managed to create a human baby, would that be a good example of intelligent human life? After all, that infant would not have any form of interaction with his parents/any other human form, so would that mean that child would act animalistic or would it emulate the foreign life form that created it?
Sorry about the question marks and all that philosophical bull malarky, first time in this section.
I'd say they'd emulate what they were around/taught/learned.
[QUOTE=id05245;42495278]I'd say they'd emulate what they were around/taught/learned.[/QUOTE]
This because there have been cases where children are found to have been raised by animals and behave just like them.
Very rare cases, but quite a few nonetheless.
Should a human ever be cloned by other intelligent beings, it would pretty much 100% emulate them.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure Voyager 1 or at least ONE of our probes has Human DNA samples on it.
Societal "emulation" is most likely, since we act as what society teaches us; for a human child grown by aliens in a "first contact" style of cloning, I expect it'd probably be raised in a lab environment. It'd express the learning potential and intellectual development that humans naturally possess, but knowledge of contemporary or historical human culture is stored in ze little grey cells, not in the DNA.
The only way that kind of human clone raised far from human civilisation would know of human civilisation would be if the aliens knew of human culture and educated the subject about their "heritage", whether through prior study of human culture from afar, or if the capsule containing the genetic samples also contained a compilation of human knowledge, history and culture.
[QUOTE=ironman17;42495372]Societal "emulation" is most likely, since we act as what society teaches us; for a human child grown by aliens in a "first contact" style of cloning, I expect it'd probably be raised in a lab environment. It'd express the learning potential and intellectual development that humans naturally possess, but knowledge of contemporary or historical human culture is stored in ze little grey cells, not in the DNA.
The only way that kind of human clone raised far from human civilisation would know of human civilisation would be if the aliens knew of human culture and educated the subject about their "heritage", whether through prior study of human culture from afar, or if the capsule containing the genetic samples also contained a compilation of human knowledge, history and culture.[/QUOTE]
I meant what they were taught by the people they were raised by not about things they couldn't of learned about without knowledge outside of what could be provided in that capsule scenario.
In other words, yes: I believe they'd be able to learn what the aliens would teach them, and would do so without much difficulty.
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