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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
That really really really stretches what bionics means to the person on the street which is what I believe matters for this thread.
Same goes for all the other examples in the list.
If you asked such a person to name the method of artificial embryo twinning, they would not call it cloning regardless of how it technically is. They would only count cloning of adult organisms like Dolly as real cloning.
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Considering what the average Joe think theory means (when applied to science) this is a really poor argument. Velcro is listed as a
method of Bionics in the wikipedia article on it.