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Duplication

Creating multiple selves

Reality check‘Doubles’ have formal religious inquiries (the 1631 Spanish Inquisition on the abbess of Ágreda) and 42 school witnesses (Sagée, 1845); medically, multiple personality is a real diagnosis (Billy Milligan was the first American acquitted for it); biologically, ‘copying oneself’ — a cloned monkey — was born in Shanghai in 2018.

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The abbess of Ágreda’s ‘Lady in Blue’ bilocation

🏛️ Official record

Two Spanish Inquisition inquiries (1631, 1650) · Franciscan Benavides’ 1630 memorial · Spain → New Mexico · Texas · 1620–1631

The nun claimed ~500 ‘bilocations’ to preach to the Jumano in North America; missionary Benavides, after Native Americans described a ‘Lady in Blue’, returned to Spain to question her, and the Inquisition found no fraud.

VerdictA bilocation record with full church and colonial files.

Émilie Sagée’s double

📜 On record

Neuwelcke girls’ school Latvia, 42 students witnessed · recorded by Robert Dale Owen 1860 · Latvia · 1845–1846

As the French teacher wrote on the board an identical ‘second her’ appeared beside her, once seen by all 42 pupils at once; she herself never saw it.

VerdictA second-hand record with no contemporary inquiry.

Padre Pio’s bilocation

📜 On record

Vatican canonisation files · Italy · 1918–1968

Multiple witnesses said they saw him elsewhere while he never left the monastery.

VerdictChurch files, not externally verified.

Billy Milligan: acquitted with 24 personalities

🏛️ Official record

Ohio state court, USA · USA, Columbus · 1977–1978

The rape defendant was diagnosed with 24 personalities, becoming the first American acquitted by reason of multiple personality disorder.

VerdictOn judicial and psychiatric record.

Heautoscopy

🎓 Academic research

Univ of Zurich Hospital, Brugger · Blanke · Switzerland · 1994–

Patients see and feel ‘another self’, sometimes unsure which is the original, linked to parietal-insular lesions.

VerdictA neuroscientific ‘double’.

The cloned monkeys Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua

🔬 Achieved by science

CAS Institute of Neuroscience (Cell 2018) · China, Shanghai · 2018

The first primates cloned by somatic-cell nuclear transfer.

Verdict‘Copying yourself’ is biologically one ethical step from humans.

Dolly the sheep

🔬 Achieved by science

Roslin Institute · UK, Scotland · 1996

The first somatic-cell-cloned mammal.

VerdictThe dawn of the cloning era.

🌀 Rare

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