Scientists ask twins to comment on clones, twins smack scientists upside head:
A cloned human would probably consider themselves to be an individual, a study suggests.
Scientists drew their conclusions after interviewing identical twins about their experiences of sharing exactly the same genes with somebody else.
The team said the twins believed their genes played a limited role in shaping their identity.
The UK/Austrian research will shortly be published in the journal of Social Science and Medicine.
First of all, you don't need to ask twins to find this out. Second, asking whether a clone would consider themselves an individual is like asking a Yankees fan whether they like baseball. By definition, they have their own identity because you are TALKING TO A SEPARATE PERSON. Unless they've learned to mild-meld or you have mistaken a ventriloquist puppet for a human, it seems a little obvious.
Duh.
Dr. Prainsack should have interviewed a batch of frozen blastocysts, about their feeling of self-identity.