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No, Because a soul is something that cannot be created. The clone would just look like the original. It would probably not even act like the original person due to it being synthetic.

Begs the question, how do you know we have souls to begin with?

My definition of 'soul' is:
deep feeling or emotion
And we all do have emotions.

If an individual has those traits then gets cloned the clone cannot have a 'soul'. The 'soul' is a distinguished feature of the persons nature. It cannot simply be transferred over to a clone.

if a soul is what Matrix said all beings with a complex brain would have one, and a human clone would certainly have.

I don't think clones have a soul, they're just exact the same as the one they are cloned from.. They would act in every way their ,"boss" i will call them, would react. So they don't have their own feeling.

So i don't think they have a soul

1 a person's brain and personality mostly depend from their experiences, so two clones would become different soon.
2 it's not certain that two identical brain would think in the same way.

"soul" is a conceptual term of which we have no physical confirmation.

its similar to the "artificial life" thread i had a while back.... if you created a human from scratch via technology (arranging dna base pairs), would this being have a soul granted the soul exists?

now if you believe in something like the soul then I would think you would believe in an entity that dolls these souls out... I don't see why he wouldn't doll a soul out to these scientifically created beings... now there are those that argue that he wouldn't... but maybe sentience equals soul? maybe the after life has all the sentient beings (ex animal,human,or otherwise)... or maybe there's no such thing

for a discussion on a subject like this... we need more evidence to have any headway either way... w/o it its just hearsay and opinion.

I don't believe in souls. I believe the clones would have a personality, one similar to the original, but with some differences in personality depending on differences in background and life experiences.

A clone, as in someone whose DNA was altered before their birth to match the DNA of an already born person, would be just like another human being in every way in behavior and appearances.

You could think of a person and his clone as two twins, and you don't think that only one of them gets a soul, do you? Because twins are, in a way, clones.

Here's a Wikipedia quote about human cloning:

The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning; human clones in the form of identical twins are commonplace, with their cloning occurring during the natural process of reproduction.

It would probably not even act like the original person due to it being synthetic.

Reproductive cloning generally uses "somatic cell nuclear transfer" (SCNT) to create animals that are genetically identical. This process entails the transfer of a nucleus from a donor adult cell (somatic cell) to an egg that has no nucleus. If the egg begins to divide normally it is transferred into the uterus of the surrogate mother. Such clones are not strictly identical since the somatic cells may contain mutations in their nuclear DNA. Additionally, the mitochondria in the cytoplasm also contains DNA and during SCNT this DNA is wholly from the donor egg, thus the mitochondrial genome is not the same as that of the nucleus donor cell from which it was produced. This may have important implications for cross-species nuclear transfer in which nuclear-mitochondrial incompatibilities may lead to death.

They would act in every way their ,"boss" i will call them, would react. So they don't have their own feeling.

Do people have souls?

Would clones have soul?

i think soul is a term for personality, so when clones are made, they start acting different based on what they do, so i would say, technically, yes clones have a soul.

Everything that thinks on its own has a "soul" I guess, so yes, clones would have souls. Clones are not just putting something in a copying machine, it's just basically identical twins that are born at different times. Or with different mothers.

It cannot simply be transferred over to a clone.

Clones are in deffinition something that is coppied exactly so if it is then the person and the copy can basicly have the same soul.

If you're talking about the cloning in movies were you take an individual and clone an exact replica then when created the two would have the same exact thoughts. After some time though they would differ. If that's the case then I guess a clone can have a soul. And my definition on soul is still the same on the last page.

if you say that they would have the same exact thoughts then I dissagree because right when the are cloned (movie way) they would be in different places so they would imeaditly have different thoughts.