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You seem to be losing sight of what something 'authentic' actually is and redefining it as a "primal or fundamentally enviromnental" attribute. It's actually a property that continually shifts with cultural and technological advancement and is more of a strict comparison for something to be more genuine compared to something else, which is certainly not tantamount to stagnation. You can have an authentic education, science can be authentic, and usually what can best preserve nature is usually heralded as the most authentic for example.

As you said, beauty is subjective and I apologize when I stated "absolute" as an inadvertent objective measure. What I meant is the closest proximity to it in your mind so cloning from one individual would be disadvantageous for that objective. But certainly you can impute several traits from divergent samples that would collectively make something "new".