Symmetrical fighting would be impossible. The human brain is infinitely too complex. Being a millimeter closer to the wall than your clone is already changing things. If anything, after noticing that I was fighting symmetrically, i'd just do something "random" which would break the cycle too.

That's assuming we never talked. After you start talking you're already thinking on different paths.

RaLakedaimon

United States1564 Posts

April 10 2011 05:24 GMT

#162

No other option, we'd both find a way to kill each other at the same time because were such gosu fighters, plz bury us both in the same plot tho to save my fam some cash

stalking.d00m

213 Posts

April 10 2011 05:25 GMT

#163

On April 10 2011 14:17 hongo wrote:
Well first I'd jump through the roof, go super saiyan, and get my power level over NINE THOUSAND. Then we'll see how fair of a fight it is

You forgot to add 'and destroy the moon and planet earth in the process'

Though, I think the answer is perfectly clear if we remember that there are twins with same habits, thoughts etc in the world. So there are plenty of clone wars on our planet.

darkscream

Canada2310 Posts

April 10 2011 05:33 GMT

#164

On April 10 2011 12:37 TheKanAry wrote:

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.........This begs the question of who would be on top.

I'm sure we can flip. I'm pretty easy to get along with. I wouldn't fight myself

nemY

United States3119 Posts

April 10 2011 05:40 GMT

#165

We wouldn't fight each other. We'd just kick it and chill.

Fontong

United States6454 Posts

April 10 2011 05:42 GMT

#166

People who think that the fight would progress in a symmetrical fashion are misguided. Do you really think that the instant that you are both 'spawned' you are going to make the exact same unconscious shifts in your body, or that you'll blink at the exact same times? Or maybe that the shifting of your bodies will be so exact that the air circulation in the room will be the same(even if it is perfectly symmetrical to start out). This is already a divergence...

This is kind of like saying that if you were to live a 10 second period of your life 10 times over, and each time you lived it again you would start in the same position with molecular exactness. Do you really think that your body movements are so perfectly controlled that there isn't a degree of randomness which would cause each of the re-livings to differ ever so slightly?

ionize

Ireland399 Posts

April 10 2011 05:54 GMT

#167

I'd rather play him in UT and have a great practice partner.

Anyways, I argue that you and your clone still form two entities so your clone wont act like you do. You're not synchronized in ways of thinking as your brains ain't linked. I guess they outcome of such a fight would be pretty brutal and the style of fighting versatile and aggressive.

If you imagine something like this in your head and you go "WHat would my clone think?", you're on the wrong line of thought. Rather imagine that you can't guess that. You would have the ideal take at some true guess work. How good do you know yourself and maybe you show yourself (clone) how different you can think all of a sudden.

Brutaxilos

United States2622 Posts

April 10 2011 05:59 GMT

#168

one of us would die to a cheese

Ghost151

United States290 Posts

April 10 2011 06:11 GMT

#169

On April 10 2011 06:30 eduh wrote:
there is a certain randomness to your decision making process, so you wouldnt be mimicking each other.

this

not to mention differences in how much force, speed, etc. you would use. The fact that you think alike but are not one mind/entity is enough to throw symmetry out the window.

this goes back to what does "clone" mean to you. Here in the west, "clone" generally means having the same genetic make up but differences in thought processes and self-identity. In the east, "clone" means something more along the lines of doppelganger; that is, literally another instance of yourself, that looks, feels, thinks and behaves exactly like you. Genetics is not stressed, and the meaning has more superstition to it.

example

lets say you do both think alike and you both DO use the same opening move. Depending on the effect of this opening, one of you is going to hit the other, get hit, mutually harm each other, or nullify each others' attack. Based on just these outcomes of the first move alone, there is A LOT of room for rethinking an approach, based on the inherent design of decision making processes.

DystopiaX

United States16236 Posts

April 10 2011 06:12 GMT

#170

You wouldn't have the same physical/mental attributes though, because environment and experience will alter who you are, even if you and your clone are genetically identical. The person who wins would be the person who's had the experience that would best aid them in a fight.

zingmars

Latvia189 Posts

April 10 2011 06:31 GMT

#171

The first one who understands that the enemy is a clone wins, because at that point one could simply change the way you fight in that battle, because even if he's your clone, he's still a whole another being, and even tho your thought process is the same, depending on the situation, you'll both think about 2 different things.
In my case tho, I would simply go to a bar with him and drink a beer with him. Even if he was about to destroy the entire world.
EDIT: Seems like this point was bought up before in this thread. hm...

HULKAMANIA

United States1219 Posts

April 10 2011 06:46 GMT

#172

On April 10 2011 14:59 Brutaxilos wrote:
one of us would die to a cheese

I really don't have anything substantial to add to this thread. I just wanted to congratulate this guy publicly for making me legitimately laugh out loud.

They say all knowledge is self knowledge. I think old Brutaxilos here is a knowledgeable individual.

Neb1000

United States183 Posts

April 10 2011 07:05 GMT

#173

What people want it to be.
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What it would really be.
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WyghtWolf

Israel145 Posts

April 10 2011 07:10 GMT

#174

Due to the complete randomness of thoughts that's going around in my head(can't concentra-ooh shiny) the fight between my clone and I would go for about thirty seconds, than we'd both sit down, talk our problems out, and play 2v2 in SC.

Irrelevant

United States2364 Posts

April 10 2011 07:21 GMT

#175

This question made me smoke weed and think about it and so far I got a sweet idea for a movie and an urge for otter pops...

Fredoq

Sweden206 Posts

April 10 2011 07:26 GMT

#176

2 Falcon punches would collide and the world would end. :D

imBLIND

United States2626 Posts

April 10 2011 07:30 GMT

#177

There would be no fight cause we'd both be too lazy to fight.

numLoCK

Canada1416 Posts

April 10 2011 07:38 GMT

#178

We wouldn't be trying to defeat each other at first. The symmetry would be infuriating, and breaking that would be our initial goal. Once symmetry is broken our thought processes will be different and we'll be able to fight properly.
But after quite a bit of thinking we still haven't figured it out.

aztrorisk

United States896 Posts

April 10 2011 07:43 GMT

#179

I think it would end in a draw because it requires a lot of stamina and endurance and I would just give up after the first punch and let him beat me up.