Matias Kurovassi
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.10.15 10:40:23 -
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I admit to pondering the wording of the exhortation by the Theology Council given thus as clones:
embodying souls in communion with the Imperial Rite as the flesh of their birth would speak to us
In particular the phrase, "Flesh of their birth." A Grade A+ Hydrostatic Clone is built from the stem cell transcription from a client on to a harvested human cadaver, and in the case of lower grade clones from the artificially manufactured bodies derived from human body parts or other processed biomass -- human or otherwise. As such this raises some interesting questions to me:
1. Does the flesh of birth refer to the specific racial phenotype of the biomass used to construct a clone body, or not? Does only the final clone product after stem cell and genetic transcriptions have to match an original body for it to be embodying a soul? Would a Minmatar cadaver transcribed to the phenotype of an Amarrian clone be considered as embodying a soul for an Amarrian whose stem cells and DNA were used to do so, for example?
2. The alternative to human biomass transcription methods in order to cultivate a clone meeting the standard of being, "As the flesh of their birth," would seem to raise its own fundamental dogmatic concerns. For would not techniques like nucleus replacements of oocytes to achieve an exact zygote replica of a person then mean an religious approval of a form of asexual/parthogenic reproduction of humans? More importantly, would the resulting fetus and child have a soul or not as it is rapidly matured to adulthood in order to serve as a custom-ordered shell?
The examples used to inform the exhortation; the act of the divine to bring Empress Jamyl Sarum I back from her death and the cell regrowth of an human body as is the case with Lord Articio Kor-Azor do not appear as adequate reflections of the modern cloning industry as it applies to the actual growth, construction and use of clones.
I do have my hopes these questions will be clarified in the future by the ecclesiastical authorities of the Empire as to the nature of the soul as it applies to the cloning industry. |
Matias Kurovassi
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2016.10.16 00:15:44 -
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Pieter Tuulinen wrote:Speaking of the modern state of the cloning industry, when is the last time that any of us had to choose the quality of our clone body?
Yesterday, when I switched clone service providers.
Which really is why I'm curious about the exhortation by the Theology Council. Caldari cloning and biomedical firms do a lot of business in the Empire, and the exhortation on cloning represents a potentially expanded market base as Imperial citizens who might have been hesitant to adopt the technology on religious grounds will now be less so. It is however a matter of just exactly which cloning technologies would be considered religiously proscribed or not. since there is a wide array of such.
With the recent news of the SSoE providing cloning technology to CONCORD signatories I can only assume it's pre-compliant with this exhortation so I guess we can all wait and see just what it might entail.
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