I just saw a documentary on the NHK WORLD this morning about something similar to cloning.
Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor at Osaka University and researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories created (I'm not sure who created it though) an ANDROID name GEMINOID which exactly looks like himself.
Although the geminoid are remotely control but Ishiguro explains, “When someone touches Geminoid, it seems as if I am the one being touched.”
One of the purposes for creating Geminoid is to explore the concept of tele-existence — to figure out what is needed in order to copy an actual human’s “presence” so that he or she may exist in two places at once. “I wonder how possible it is to separate one’s inner self and outer self, to create distance between one’s body and soul,” Ishiguro says.
I think that's probably off-topic enough. Those wishing to discuss cloning and the like can create a thread in the you-know-where forum. In fact, they may be interested in creating several
