The Soul
Occasionally updated and edited. Copyright © 2009

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Most would agree that cloning a vital organ for posterity bears no moral dilemma.

But the question arises: If I were to commission my liver to be cloned, would my new liver possess a) a new soul b) my soul or c) no soul?

Supposing, in addition to my liver, I commissioned another vital organ to be cloned — or all my vital organs to be cloned. What would be the soul status of this new, living tissue?

And what, if it were possible, to commission the cloning of all my internal organs and my skeleton? Would the new tissue have soul status?

What if the cloning procedure included my veins and skin? What if all of me were duplicated through cloning except for my brain? Would that living matter have a soul? And what if the brain were included? A whole new duplication of me?

What would the clone's soul status be?