The Tutorial is Too Hard - Chapter 38

*=Thanks to Hollywood, many people have the wrong idea what a clone is. A clone is an artificial created (debatable*²), genetic identical, copy of a living multicellular*³ organism. If we exclude artificial*², then an identical twin is also a kind of clone. However there’s no original in that case, or both are also the original.
Anyway as you can see, having an genetical identical copy doesn’t mean sharing memories nor personality.
Even if you could create another copy of you with the same age of you, it would be a new person*⁴.

*²=Many plants create genetical copies of themselves. Depending on how connected they are to the original they are either considered part of the original plant, or a clone. That is derived from that you can create easily clones from plants, that usually don’t clone themselves. Just trick then to grow roots, and you have a new independent plant genetical identical to the original.
(Example:)

That is also how we got banana plantations. Bananas were bred to have more, and more tasty fruit material, while having less and smaller seeds. The final mutation resulted in an infertile fruit. The tiny black spots in a banana were supposed to become seeds, but they never got that far.

Since that banana is infertile, you can’t grow more of them that way.

But you can clone the plant. Every banana “tree” is a clone of the original.

*⁴=

Anyway since the line is blurry, all identical copies of plants were considered/declared clones, artificial or not.

*³=If we exclude that, basically every organism that reproduces via mitosis (cell division) is a clone. Some think it that way.

*⁴=There is a bit more to that, but that would exceed this comment.

*⁵=So rather than a clone, she’s more of a copy. A copy is a clone with the same memory and personality. A copy might not know they are a copy.

*⁶=A copy could only exist as an instance. Every copy would think they are the original, while only coming into existence once invoked. They would also cease to exist once the instance ends. (If e.g. MC retreats to the waiting room. [Have forgøtten if that is possible or not.] If that’s the case, and he comes back, there would be a new copy with no recollection of the prior interactions.)

*⁷=Could be a mix of existing persons, think of it as the equivalent of an AI generated image. Of course there would be a limit to it. Why create a perfect background when moist isn’t used? Good enough is good enough. After all, all she is supposed to do is to fight.
Though through asking that could fall apart, when you ask for details.
Example: Trainer, yes she has one who taught her to fight. What was his name? How did he look? Birthday? Personal preferences? All the little things you learn naturally when you interact with a person for a long time, but aren’t really nessansary for the result.
Asking her about that would make her realise she doesn’t know these details. Indicating she was created as she’s now, rather than being a natural person living to now.

*⁸=similar enough for the test, but not identical. The gender could be different, the motivation, the personality, the techniques (patterns) used, and a few more things. While keeping the overall skills and prowess. (If you are losing against one, you won’t win against any. If you are decisively [not a fluke] win against one, you can win against all)

*⁹=Lame d(e)ad joke. To grow on something means, to become “bigger” and or better. An obstacle is something that hinders progress. What it meant in context is something I hopefully don’t have to explain. But now think that an obstacle also could mean a physical barrier on a path. Like a tipped over tree or a big bolder. On which does/can moss grow.
The feel the need to explain the joke, shows how bad the joke was.