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Answer by célio ishikawa for Can the copy or clone of something be a...

The modern biology says the bodies of clones will behavour in different ways if the bacterias and viruses in their bodies are different.About copying or linking files, the previous comment is very...

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Answer by wizzwizz4 for Can the copy or clone of something be a different,...

But can copies be their own different, separate and independent entities?Yes. Your example of cell division demonstrates this quite nicely.A meditation on filesystemsImagine copy-pasting a folder named...

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Answer by Michael for Can the copy or clone of something be a different,...

In this answer, the word here has been copy-pasted here (honestly). Both have the same internal configuration and the same origin, but each has a unique external configuration and post-partum path. The...

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Answer by Frog for Can the copy or clone of something be a different,...

At the point you copy something, the copy is an entity in its own right and while it may be identical to the original at that point, their paths will diverge from that point onwards. It is unwise to...

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Can the copy or clone of something be a different, separate and independent...

People claim clones and copies are extensions. For instance, they claim that when a cell divides, the "daughter" cells are the "parent" cell; that if something happens to the "parent" cell, the...

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