{"id":1859,"date":"2017-12-01T12:58:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/number-caryl-churchill-philosophical-analysis\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T14:19:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T14:19:30","slug":"number-caryl-churchill-philosophical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/da\/number-caryl-churchill-philosophical-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Number by Caryl Churchill &#8211; a philosophical analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lillian Wilde is a graduate in the field of phenomenology. In this guest blog post, she asks some existential questions about a soon-to-be-staged play on human cloning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That Theatre, an English-language theatre group in Copenhagen, is staging the play \u2018A Number\u2019 by Caryl Churchill<a href=\"http:\/\/that-theatre.com\/?page_id=33\"> in February 2018<\/a>. The play, which explores the consequences of human cloning, will be preceded by\u00a0a debate organised and promoted by Mike Young Academy. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1759 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-like-me-at-all-w-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"rasmus mortensen, that theatre\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-like-me-at-all-w-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-like-me-at-all-w-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-like-me-at-all-w-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-like-me-at-all-w-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-like-me-at-all-w-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-like-me-at-all-w-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-like-me-at-all-w.jpg 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>That is why Mike Young Academy invited Lillian Wilde, a philosopher and visual artist, to analyse the play in this blog post, and to interpret it in the form of a series of visuals based on photos of the actors.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The ethics of human cloning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Caryl Churchill\u2019s play &#8216;A Number&#8217; is about the ethics of human cloning &#8211; at least on the surface. I say \u2018on the surface\u2019 because to me as a philosopher, the questions she asks strike me as working at a deeper existential level. The play leaves out <a href=\"https:\/\/philosophynow.org\/issues\/44\/Carbon_Copies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the debate we typically associate with cloning<\/a>. Instead, Churchill takes human cloning as a framework for philosophical considerations. First and foremost, she discusses the question of personal identity:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Who am I?<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What makes me me?<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Am I unique? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">A series of questions unfolds in the play from here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Problem of Twinship<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p7\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Salter: Even one, a twin, would be a shock<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><em><span class=\"s1\">Bernard 2: A twin would be a surprise but a number<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><em><span class=\"s1\">Salter: A number any number is a shock.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s1\">Caryl Churchill, A Number<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1761 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unique-w-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"visual collage of hands with the word unique\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unique-w-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unique-w-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unique-w-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unique-w-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unique-w-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unique-w-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unique-w.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Twins are natural clones: they are two organisms that evolved from one fertilised egg and carry the identical genetic makeup as each other. Often, we tend to think of them as one entity. But are twins actually identical? PhD candidate at the University of Kent and specialised <a href=\"https:\/\/kent.academia.edu\/JamesHoctor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twin researcher\u00a0James W. Hoctor<\/a>, disagrees with the widespread notion that twins form a singular entity or that they possess a \u2018we-self\u2019. He argues instead that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/33469398\/Twinship_is_not_a_Pathology_Understanding_the_Fundamental_Structures_of_the_Self\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twinship is \u201ca joint enterprise which includes a sense of self and other.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Personal Identity<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1768 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/if-thats-me-over-there-w-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ian burns and rasmus mortensen that theatre\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/if-thats-me-over-there-w-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/if-thats-me-over-there-w-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/if-thats-me-over-there-w-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/if-thats-me-over-there-w-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/if-thats-me-over-there-w-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/if-thats-me-over-there-w-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/if-thats-me-over-there-w.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hoctor grounds his argument on a phenomenological theory of the \u2018minimal self\u2019: according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/28869253\/Thin_thinner_thinnest_Defining_the_minimal_self\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Zahavi, Professor of Philosophy<\/a> at the University of Copenhagen, the self in its most minimal sense &#8211; leaving out life story, social connections, personal traits etc. &#8211; can be understood as someone\u2019s first-person-perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p10\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Salter: because if that\u2019s me over there\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">who am I? <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p10\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Bernard 2: yes but it\u2019s not me over there.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><span class=\"s1\">Caryl Churchill, A Number<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\">The fact that I experience from my very own point-of-view that is different to everyone else\u2019s is enough to account for the fact that I am me; whether I have a twin with the same genetic material as me or not.\u00a0<\/span>Why, then, would a twin be a shock?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Original and Copy<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p9\"><em><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Bernard 2: what if someone else is the one, the first one, the real one\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\">Caryl Churchill, A Number<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1772 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-that-Im-not-real-w-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"visual collage of hands \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-that-Im-not-real-w-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-that-Im-not-real-w-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-that-Im-not-real-w-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-that-Im-not-real-w-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-that-Im-not-real-w-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-that-Im-not-real-w-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/not-that-Im-not-real-w.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In the play, the concern is raised about originality . The worry seems to be twofold:<b> <\/b>Is a copy less \u2018real\u2019 than an original? And does the original lose anything, its identity or value, by being copied? If we turn to the art world we see: even the most precise, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/recent-art-forgery-scandals-705428\">magnificent forgery<\/a> of an artwork remains a \u2018fake\u2019 and is worth nothing compared to the master\u2019s original, which does not lose either its value or its identity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\">There are two problems with this in applying it to a human (or any other conscious being): the concept of the minimal self tells us that there is, in fact, a unique self to every conscious being. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\">And then there is another question: C<\/span>an we measure the value of a human being at all?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><strong style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s2\">The Value of a Human Life<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p9\"><i style=\"text-align: center;\">Bernard 2: The value of those people&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><i style=\"text-align: center;\">Salter: What? Is it money? Is it something you can put a figure on?&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span style=\"text-align: center;\">Caryl Churchill, A Number<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1774 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/the-value-of-a-human-life-w-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"close up of an eye with the text a value of a human life\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/the-value-of-a-human-life-w-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/the-value-of-a-human-life-w-copy-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/the-value-of-a-human-life-w-copy-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/the-value-of-a-human-life-w-copy-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/the-value-of-a-human-life-w-copy-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/the-value-of-a-human-life-w-copy-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/the-value-of-a-human-life-w-copy.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>How do we measure how much a person is worth? Economists have come up with one answer:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/environmental-economics\/mortality-risk-valuation\"> the \u2018value of statistical life\u2019<\/a> estimates first how much people are willing to pay to reduce their individual risk of dying by 1 in 100,000. Distributed over 100,000 study participants, this risk reduction would lead to one saved life, statistically speaking. Say that everyone was willing to pay $100, it follows that \u201cthe total dollar amount that the group would be willing to pay to save one statistical life \u2026 would be $100 per person \u00d7 100,000 people, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Value_of_life\">$10 million<\/a>.\u201d Easy, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\">But, granted we can put a figure on it, is the value of a person really impacted by the existence of a copy? Is the copy worth less? Asked differently, is a twin less valuable than someone whose genetic material is unique?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Nature vs. Nurture<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p7\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Bernard 2: someone like you couldn\u2019t have tried harder\u2026 If you\u2019d tried harder you\u2019d have been different from what you were like and you weren\u2019t.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">Caryl Churchill, A Number<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1775 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/you-are-you-w-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ian burns that theatre with text you are you\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/you-are-you-w-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/you-are-you-w-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/you-are-you-w-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/you-are-you-w-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/you-are-you-w-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/you-are-you-w-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/you-are-you-w.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This leads me to my last inquiry. How identical are identical clones (or twins, for that matter) really? Is the genetic material the main determining factor of someone\u2019s identity? What role does upbringing, culture, and circumstances play? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p9\"><span class=\"s1\">Caryl Churchill addresses these issues<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>entertainingly,\u00a0and with increasing urgency in &#8216;A Number&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A Number&#8217; premieres at <a href=\"http:\/\/that-theatre.com\/\">That Theatre Company<\/a> in Copenhagen on the 21. February 2018, following a panel debate moderated by Mike Young.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1833 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lillian-300x225.png\" alt=\"Lillian Wilde\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lillian-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lillian-450x338.png 450w, https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lillian.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lillian Wilde (right) is a philosopher and visual artist.\u00a0<\/em><em>All the illustrations for this article are by her.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Planning a conference or event? Need a panel moderator? See Mike Young Academy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/da\/kommunikation-til-konferencer\/\">conference and events page here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lillian Wilde is a graduate in the field of phenomenology. In this guest blog post, she asks some existential questions about a soon-to-be-staged play on human cloning. That Theatre, an English-language theatre group in Copenhagen, is staging the play \u2018A Number\u2019 by Caryl Churchill in February 2018. 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