Abstract

I want to imagine an alternate universe with you—if only for a moment. One in which there were no clones. A universe free of cloning. One that simply did not have to worry itself with the moral, ethical, religious, legal, scientific, medical, economic, or philosophical questions surrounding what it is to clone; who or what ought or ought not to be cloned; what is and is not clonable; or with clonality in general. A clone-less or clone-free world, then, though not necessarily one without tropical storms, or cyclones. A-clonal, un-clonable, in-clonate. What would this universe look like? Would such a universe appear in the same light as it does today? Would this be anything less than another universe, that is, a...