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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
All we are are our brains. People who think feelings come from the heart or that our "true self" is our soul are ignorant - not from a lack of intelligence, but from a lack of knowledge.
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This is contrary to Plato's cave metaphor, which basically says that for any object, there are 3 levels: 1) a mass-produced chair, one of many, 2) the chair itself, and 3) the concept of a chair.
In this example, we have 1) my brain, 2) brains in general, and 3) an abstract notion of my brain, usually referred to as scientists as "the mind" and philosophers as "the soul."
As far as the clone thing goes, Orson Scott Card wrote about this in some of his sillier fiction towards the end of the Ender series. Which is worth reading but barely, the series starts phenomenally but consistantly declines.