One is needed to produce the replica, but through process, the replication never breeds identicallness, only identity distorted in all its intended perfection.
Primciple of multiplicity: it is only when the multiple is effectively treated as a substantive, "multiplicity," that it ceases to have any relation to the One as subject or object, natural or spritual reality, image and world. Multiplicities are rhizomatic, and expose arborescent pseudomultiplicities for what they are. (Gilles, Deleuze and Felix Guattari)
Resemblance is a beginning masking the advent of whole new vital dimention. This even applies to mimickry in nature. An insect that mimics a leaf does so not to meld with the vegetable state of its surrounding miilieu, but to reenter the higher realm of predatory animal warefare on a new footing. Mimickry, according to Lacan, is camouflage. (Jacques Lacan)
It constitutes a war zone
