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Shortly after the announcement that British scientists had successfully cloned a sheep, The Guardian ran an article about a man who thought that cloning could provide a route to immortality The article did not include a detailed account of how this was to be achieved, but the essential idea is that since in cloning the genetic blueprint for a particular individual is used to make another individual with the same genetic makeup, the new individual …

…from any sort of cloning, but it is a long way from anything that is possible at the moment. Indeed, even when the technique of transplanting bits of brain is perfected, it is still not clear that it will be possible. We may find, for example, that there is some bit of the brain that cannot be disconnected without interrupting the stream of consciousness. We have a long way to go from Dolly to immortality.