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I figured it was pretty clear I wasn't talking about entire human clones? It'd all be piecemeal, different cloned systems would be used as testing environments. There'd never be a whole human clone involved, that's just creating an entirely new set of ethical problems.
You couldn't just clone a single organ. You would have to clone basically all of them to know for certain, including the brain. Having them be separate isn't any better, it could actually be worse. You're trying to do things we not only don't have the technology for, but would be very morally questionable.
Testing on animals is morally questionable! Although I'm talking about cloning full systems, so they could still all be kept separate rather than just being a whole cloned body. You'd have one model that's a clone of the entire digestive system, another that's a clone of the nervous system, another that's a clone of the circulatory system, and they'd be connected or disconnected from each other as needed.
Also, yeah, I'm very aware this isn't something we can do yet! That's why I called it the next Human Genome project.
Animal testing, beyond just being wrong, is a crutch and it's holding us back.
How exactly are you going to keep any of those alive without the others? I don't think you've actually thought this through to be honest.
Also how do you morally do tests on a human brain?