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Originally Posted by TronDD

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If they can transport people by switching bits, including transporting their soul, why can't they switch the bits to clone a person including their soul? Unless the soul is a seperate entity that has nothing to do with matter and is just transported with the bit information.

This also raises the question, if the clone is simply a corpse, are the kids really dying or ar souless clones replacing their real bodies in the world?

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Memories and souls can't be cloned because they are not physical objects. Since they cannot be replicated they cannot be transfered to a clone. I guess that if you cloned a disk it would probably lose all the information for the same reason.

Since the kids are not being teleported away and replaced with a dead body it is safe to say that they are really dying.