Döppelgangers galore
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Given infinite time, many crazy things are possible.
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Given infinite anything, everything is possible. Let's not introduce deal-breakers !
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Because there are a finite number of combinations for DNA proteins to line up, the exact same person could be created twice.
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Certainly, and anyone arguing otherwise would be arguing against the premise of life itself!
But as to whether that (physical) duplicate would also turn out to be the same "person" as well (in the sense, of having the same mental and psychological attributes as the "original", in other words the same consciousness), I'm afraid that this would be impossible :
It would require the two copies to have the same physical genalogy (in order to have identical hereditary traits), something that would require either time travle backwards to create a copy family or an experiment that lasts a thousand years into the future and the same living environment from day zero onwards (i.e. identical experiences), which is easier than the other attribute to achieve, but, still, colossally difficult.
Competitive bridge would be tic-tac-toe compared to it...
But doubles are already walking the Earth! Has anyone seen his döppelganger yet ?
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