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Dr. Tyrell in Blade Runner seemed to have no problem figuring out how to create replacements for us. The replicants Rachael, Roy, Zhora, Leon, and Pris were only given a life-span of four years due to technological limits, but the fact that they were able to be created so life-like and capable of a much higher level of functioning than humans is astonishing. They were all stronger than us humans, capable of emotion, and clearly able to win a battle of wits in some of the fight scenes. The only thing differentiating them from humans were the Turing tests. However, if real world scientists already know how to clone animals through nuclear transfer, who is to say we can 't clone humans? Additionally, if we were somehow able to put all that we already know about the creation of convincing, virtual artificial intelligence in computers into these clones, is it possible that we could turn them into something greater than Tyrell quality replicants that can live much