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Originally Posted by mindstalk
There's something to that analogy. OTOH, we don't have anything for the subjective experience of that, bacteria not being very verbose. And what they do isn't the same: there's no backup there, just forking. This would be the rock-climber falling knowing that someone else was out there with his old memories plus some new experiences, as opposed to knowing that a pure earlier self would activate. And of course this 'reproduction' is a lot different from usual human reproduction, so if you just call it reproduction the word will have to shift meaning.
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Yes, but human reproduction is only one type. There is reproduction of bacteria, as you note. In THS there is human cloning, which is different from ordinary human reproduction but is still classed as reproduction. And of course we use "reproduction" for making multiple copies of a work of art, too.
Bill Stoddard