A clone will never be identical because the code cannot master its own process

Evidence

Besides, it is probable (but this is left to a future story) that even the “clonic twin” will never be identical to its progenitor, will never be the same, if only because it will have had another before it. It will never be “just like what the genetic code in itself would have changed it to.” Millions of interferences will make of it, despite everything, a different being, who will have the very same blue eyes of its father, which is not new. And the cloning experiment will at least have the advantage of demonstrating the radical impossibility of mastering a process simply by mastering information and the code. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 347

Categorization

• XREF: Baudrillard’s clone argument parallels his broader thesis that the code/simulation cannot produce perfect resemblance — echoes of the hologram passage. — connects to: Cloning replaces parent figures with a matrix of code — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 327; Simple rules generate complex structures but never guarantee system self-maintenance — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 727

Broader Connections

• Simple rules generate complex structures but never guarantee system self-maintenance #qualifies (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 727